And now we’re rolling:
Looks like Google is working on integrating a “Share on Google+” feature to go along with the +1 button. I think this is great – it just makes sense – and kind of figured it’d be coming along at some point soon anyway. And I say working on because it hasn’t changed for me yet. Anyone?
By themselves. +1 and Google+ have a bit of an odd relationship. Or maybe it just seems odd because it’s different than the other social networks, namely Facebook and Twitter. When you click a +1 on a website, blog, video, etc., my expectation was that it’d get published to your posts stream on G+. But it didn’t. So what does it do other than telling google (and your friends) that “this is pretty cool”?
It goes to your profile under +1’s. This is only visible to you – by default. In the settings is the option to share with the public. But what this does is let people view this list too, not publish your +1’s in your stream. To enable, go to “Profile and privacy” in your Google+ settings, click the “Edit visibility on profile” button, then “the “+1’s” tab, and you’ll see the “Show this tab on your profile” option.
Still way early in the game, but it just doesn’t seems as “social” as it could be. Maybe it’s not a bad thing, maybe it cuts down on clutter. Or perhaps they’ll integrate it in time. Should it add the content to your Google+ stream?
Maybe the question is, is the content that is being +1’d across the Web content that should show up amongst the content you post on G+?
A few good comments on Google+ post for this https://plus.google.com/108467238960980710212/posts/c4JrenbDdK8