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Google Plus for beginners: The first steps

  • Nov 25, 2025
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You are new to Google Plus, you can use this manual for beginners there find your way around. With a few tips and Tricks of the catchment in the social network works without problems.

Sign up and getting started with Google Plus

  • Have you still not on Google Plus registered, you can use this guide to do.
  • Are you on the Google Plus home page you will see the middle of the latest and most popular news on Google Plus. The later will be more interesting, if you follow friends and other members.
  • At the top you can filter the News on the various points such as "friends", "family" or "All".
  • On the right side you will find all of your contacts. You can choose from there also to send you a message. Group chatting and video telephony are also possible.
  • You are driving above to the left with the mouse over the "Overview" will open a menu bar. You can access a range of functions - more on that later.
Google-Plus-Start-Up Screen

Google Plus: profile maintain and provide information

Since your profile says nothing about you, you should feed it with information. What data you are entering and the extent to which you share is entirely up to you.
  • You move the mouse on the top left of the Button "Overview" and select in the menu bar of "profile".
  • Here you can upload a profile image and the background image adjust. How this exactly works, read this practical tip.
  • To friends and new acquaintances will also learn a little about you and your Person, click above in the menu bar on the "About me". Here you enter contact information, General information and information about their work.
Google Plus: create profile

Friends on G+ to find and pages to follow

  • Unlike on Facebook, certain pages are not yet: you can follow them on Twitter. For example, you enter at the very top in the search line "CHIP Online" will take you to our Fanpage.
  • Top right, click on the Button "follow", you will always receive the latest News from us on your Google Plus home page. You can then do with pages of your favorite Bands or fun sites like 9GAG.
  • To find friends, you can also search users. To mark someone as a friend, top right corner, click the Button "add To circles". What is it exactly with the circles, you will learn in the next paragraph. How to get your friends to Google Plus invite, read this practical tip.
Pages on Google Plus follow

Google Plus: What are circles?

  • Instead of in a list like on Facebook, you can classify your friends on Google Plus into circles like "family", "friends" or "colleagues". Later content, such as images or Post with these same groups.
  • Add a new contact on Google Plus, you can assign him immediately to a circle (see image). He does not have to confirm your request for contact only.
  • How to get your circles right to manage, read this practical tip.
People in circles to classify

Content such as texts, images, Videos, Links, and events to share

  1. To share content on Google Plus, click on the top left of the Google Plus Logo.
  2. Up in the News, you will see a box with the question "What's New?".
  3. There you can enter your Post and then on one of the Buttons "photo", "Link", "Video" or "event" add your media.
  4. On the "To" field allows you to grant only certain users access to your Post. Here you can choose between "Public," so all the people on Google Plus, "My circles" or individual circles and people. In comparison to Facebook you can define your audience much more precisely.
  5. About the Share Button, your Post will be published. A step-by-step instructions on how to Upload and Share photos you find here.
Content on G+ share

Like = +1

  • Unlike Facebook, you don't press your appreciation, or your interest via the Button "Like", but assign a "+1".
  • To do this, click the bottom left of a post to "+1". To share a post to post with your own opinion again, click on the Button with the arrow.
  • To leave a comment below the post, below write your Text in the field.
Posts on Google Plus like
Like you lyrics on Google Plus to format, read this practical tip.

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