How to Refine The Content in Your Streams And Manage Your Google plus Experience

Hi, this Martin Shervington and I'd like to show you had to really tailor your Google Plus experience... looking at the content that you have in your streams. Let's start by pressing the ‘Explore’ button. The ‘Explore’ button will take me to the ‘What's Hot and Recommended’ page. As you can see, there's a slider at the top of the page it shows just how much here shows up in your home page. Now, if I move the slider down, it's going to reduce the amount of content. And if i put it up, it's going to increase it. That's a pretty good setting for me, so I'm going to keep it there. Now the same principle will apply if I go to my setup circles. So I have a ‘friend’ circle here. If I click on ‘friends’ I might decide never to miss a post. I can see Linda doing something out here. So I'm going to slide this up to notify that will send me a notification up here every time a new post comes out for the people in that specific circle. Alternatively I can adjust just to show how much content shows up in that home stream. So you will choose this and tailor this for each of the circles that you've got. If for some reason I don't want to see a post anymore I can effectively remove it from the stream. So I click here and I go to mute this post and watch what happens. It disappears. so that's another way of you not having to receive notifications when people are making comments on posts that you've been included in as well. Next I'd like to have a look at Larry Fournillier and use this profile as an example of how you can tailor content. Now, Larry's a fantastic Chef. He's Caribbean chef on Google Plus Known as a Trinidaddy and he's a great friend and as you see a little tick next to his name means that he's ‘verified’. So you know what that means now. And if I come across to his the circles that he's included in, you see he's included in the Commoogling circle already. But I know he likes Seinfeld. I'm going to put him in that one. And I'm very good friends so I'm going to put him in the friends circle. But also I know that he's a great chef. So I'm going to put him down as a chef and we're going to create a circle for him there and more chefs and as I go. Next let's look at George Sepich, he's the captain of the Pirates Pub on a Friday night and another good friend. So I'm going to add him into the ‘friend’ circle. I know he likes Seinfeld as well. So I can do that when I look at people's profiles. But let's say something's happened and I don't want to hear it from George anymore. I can actually mute George by clicking this button. And if you have a really bad falling out with people and you just don't want contact anymore then you can block them as well. I don't want to do that with George because he's a great guy. If there's something that's on somebody's profile that you think is inappropriate, then you can report the profile. Next, let's click on settings. Now, these are your settings. So you will be tailoring your experience further. By changing them. So as you can see here, you can decide who can interact with you on you and your posts. And at the moment this account is set as ‘extended circles’. If I wanted to restrict it, I would go to my circles or can customize it by choosing specifically who can get in touch. The same principles apply with who can comment and the same with who can start the messenger conversation. And the ‘Gchat’ is something that you can customize little farther as well but we won't do that quite yet. Also you can scroll down and see what other settings you might like to change. This is Martin Shervington. I hope you found that useful. And please subscribe to my YouTube channel for a lot more hints, tips and tricks over the coming months. Many thanks.