The con­cept of Cir­cles made per­fect sense to me. I would add folks I know into dif­fer­ent cir­cles for con­text. Bonus. Love it. Thanks much. This worked out espe­cially well as other folks I know added me to their Circles…it would remind me to add them to mine. About two months ago, the strangers found me.   Names I did not rec­og­nize. Understandable…I have a semi-well-known name on a micro­scopic slice of the Inter­net. This might be Podi­o­book lis­ten­ers, or coders, or peo­ple who fol­low peo­ple who fol­low me. The addi­tions to other Cir­cles would slow even­tu­ally as I ran out of extended peo­ple who wanted to fol­low me. The more inter­na­tional names started pop­ping up. I have no con­text for those at all. I decided to wait, think­ing that they, too, would slow down. There has no slowing. I have 20–40 peo­ple adding me to their Cir­cles everyday. I have no idea why. They don’t seem to know any­one who knows me. Spam­mers? Fake peo­ple? Who knows? I sure don’t. I stopped adding peo­ple to Cir­cles six weeks ago. Until I have a con­text for your exis­tence, I don’t want to know what you’re doing, thanks very much. So…if you decide to add me to a Cir­cle on Google+, drop me a line. Tell me how you know me. Oth­er­wise, you’ll be lost in the crowd.