Week 4: Social Networking

Task 1: How to add Patty to your social networking group? [pdf file]

• Platform: Google+ 
• Step:
1. Apply one google account
• go to https://www.google.com.tw
2. Link your account to Google+ 
3. Set your personal information
4. Search your friends on Google+
• Search "Tonny Kuo" on Google+
5. Send request to Tonny Kuo
6. Tonny accept your request

Problem Identification

The interface language will present in Chinese if you sign up in Chinese/Taiwan area. If you would like to change the language into English version, please follow the direction.

1. Log in your Google account. Please check the URL to the direct page.
2. Key in your user name and password.
3. Choose the icon “Log In (登入)” to access your google service. If activated, you will be directed to the google home page. 
4. Click “Setting (設定)” lower right corner. Then, you will see a pop-up menus containing five choices. Please choose the first one, search settings (搜尋設定).
5. On the page of “search settings (搜尋設定)”, click “Languages (語言)” on the left site. Then, choose “English” to be the primary language, and then click “save (儲存)”Warming: Once you choose English, the current showing search results will presented in English, that is, you can ONLY search the information of English.
6. After directed to the Google homepage, choose the upper left “+ plus mark”. Then, you will be guide to activate google plus. 
7. You can import your friends’ emails or names to find them on Google plus.

Find people you know on Google+

1. Open Google+. Place your cursor in the top left corner for the Google+ main menu. Click  People.
2. Browse the suggestions and place your cursor over the Add button to add people to your circles (they won't know which circle you added them to).
3. To find additional people, click Find coworkers or Find classmates.

Setting your default language

1. Sign in to Google+ .
2. Click your full name or email address in the Google bar.
3. Click Account.
4. Click Language in the middle.
5. Choose languages in order of your viewing preference.

Find friends on google plus

1. Go to Gmail and then choose “Contacts”.

google contact

2. Click “NEW CONTACT”. Key in the name and email (Gmail required)of your friend.
3. Then, your friends’ profile will automatically present.

Add friend to contacts

4. Click the name of “Connected profile” so that you will be directed to his/her profile on google plus.
5. Click “add to circles” and choose one category.
6. Your friend then will receive the notification so that he/she can join you on google plus. 

send friend request