Contacts, Circles and AboutMe
https://contacts.google.com/
The Classic web Google Contacts UI was retired on 12-Feb. The new interface no longer displays Circles. But it does display data from AboutMe if the contact info has a link to the G+Profile URL. Along with this, VCF import of Takeout.Circles data has improved so the few fields in that all go to sensible places and the profile URL is added. It appears that this includes sections where the privacy has been set to public such as Emails, phone numbers, the list of links and such like.
Unfortunately, Android Contacts doesn't seem to display the linked data from Aboutme. This seems to be only for the web interface.
Some Implications.
1) Make it easy for people to find you. Fill in your AboutMe data. https://aboutme.google.com/ Especially and including the links to your profiles on other systems.
2) Public data. Make each section as public as you feel comfortable with. If you want other people to find you and the data, then make it public.
3) Follow and import. Follow anyone you think you might want to stay in touch with. Run a Takeout of G+Circles. Import the VCF files into Google Contacts.
4) Profile display. General consensus is that Google Account AboutMe is not going anywhere and will survive the G+ Sunset. One or two fields like Tagline might be retired. I really hope that the numeric Profile URLs still resolve to some public display of this and still allow Contacts to use it as a route to gather and display the AboutMe info. This is still an open question and still not confirmed by Google.
5) Privacy. I don't know the detail yet about privacy controls in AboutMe. Say you set "Personal Contact Info" to "Your Circles" I don't know if anyone will be able to see it in Contacts. I think probably not. My guess is this will become binary Private/Public after the G+Sunset, if not before.
https://contacts.google.com/
The Classic web Google Contacts UI was retired on 12-Feb. The new interface no longer displays Circles. But it does display data from AboutMe if the contact info has a link to the G+Profile URL. Along with this, VCF import of Takeout.Circles data has improved so the few fields in that all go to sensible places and the profile URL is added. It appears that this includes sections where the privacy has been set to public such as Emails, phone numbers, the list of links and such like.
Unfortunately, Android Contacts doesn't seem to display the linked data from Aboutme. This seems to be only for the web interface.
Some Implications.
1) Make it easy for people to find you. Fill in your AboutMe data. https://aboutme.google.com/ Especially and including the links to your profiles on other systems.
2) Public data. Make each section as public as you feel comfortable with. If you want other people to find you and the data, then make it public.
3) Follow and import. Follow anyone you think you might want to stay in touch with. Run a Takeout of G+Circles. Import the VCF files into Google Contacts.
4) Profile display. General consensus is that Google Account AboutMe is not going anywhere and will survive the G+ Sunset. One or two fields like Tagline might be retired. I really hope that the numeric Profile URLs still resolve to some public display of this and still allow Contacts to use it as a route to gather and display the AboutMe info. This is still an open question and still not confirmed by Google.
5) Privacy. I don't know the detail yet about privacy controls in AboutMe. Say you set "Personal Contact Info" to "Your Circles" I don't know if anyone will be able to see it in Contacts. I think probably not. My guess is this will become binary Private/Public after the G+Sunset, if not before.
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ReplyDeletehttps://youtu.be/E-La91wr8xw
ReplyDeleteI'm beginning to understand how HAL felt ...
Some are also using the site about.me and posting it here with their info
ReplyDeleteabout.me - about.me | your personal homepage
Don McCollough Yes, good plan. And then put your AboutMe profile link in your Google Profile.
ReplyDeleteIt's clearly one of those days!
Click on somebody's profile. Click on About. Click on 3dot menu. Choose "Add to contacts". It almost works. Except that Contacts can't make the link with vanity URLs. Edit it to the numeric ID and suddenly G+Profile data pops out. FFS! Come on Google. Jeez, write the damn code, already!
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ReplyDeleteDon McCollough Julian Bond I'm using about-me too! about.me - Kerem Go on about.me
ReplyDeletePrivate ... To whom?
ReplyDeleteWithout circles how do you control that.
Hmmm... At some point I started seeing in my Google calendar the birthdays of people in my circles . It seemed a bit odd. I guess those are the people who were sharing it with me.
ReplyDeleteKerem Go your post about it is what interested me into checking it out and signing up for it.
ReplyDeleteAdam Black Yes indeed. Private to only yourself (and Google)? I guess that's what the existing option means.
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ReplyDeleteDon McCollough I'm happy to hear that 😊
ReplyDelete[aside] I see Google has started auto-marking /sub #sub sub as spam. That's the 3rd one I've released in a couple of days.
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond hmm, that's good to know. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond is there a public about me Google profile?
ReplyDeleteJulian Bond Yep, I have to un-spam those all the time.
ReplyDeleteJames Lamb Yeah - I was thinking those damn birthdays would be removed from my calendar. I can't seem to find a way to turn them off just for people I circled in G+
ReplyDeleteThere's been a change on the AboutMe page.
ReplyDeleteGoogle+ circles are going away. As a result, you will not be able to share things with circles. With a link to GSuite FAQ.
https://support.google.com/a/answer/9229693
Privacy controls have circles greyed out and now only offer Private | Public