Google+ Companion

Creating a Post to Share in Your Stream

Posting a message from within Google+ is an unsurprisingly simple process (it’d be a bit strange if Google made it complicated). To quickly create a message and share it with the world, do the following:

1. Click the home icon to make sure you’re on the home page.

2. Type your message into the text box at the top of the Stream (as shown in Figure 6-1).

3. Click Share.

FIGURE 6-1 A post in the Stream.

Your first post is shared publicly (with everybody who is following you or people who have you in their Circles). When you start to select different Circles (I come to that in a bit), then the default posting ...