Google+ brings together the best of social networking services and lets you share ideas, photos, and links with your friends, your acquaintances, your family-even your fantasy league or book group-with control over what you share and who you share it with. In this essential handbook to Google+, author Scott McNulty shows you how to set up circles, follow streams, join hangouts, and share photos. You learn how to:

• Set up your profile.
• Create and manage your circles.
• Share links, photos, video-even your location (or not).
• Take control of your stream, including how to mute and block unwanted posts.
• Join a hangout or start one yourself.
• Share notes, Google Docs, and your screen in a hangout.
  
• Upload photos and create and manage albums.
  
• Go mobile with Google+ apps for iOS and Android.

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