[paulojunior85]

The goal is to enable communications are simple and can be carried in case you have forgotten to make a formal exchange email addresses. However, although the function can be really interesting and useful, it is very intrusive and can even be considered uncomfortable by those who usually more reserved.

However, there is a simple way to disable this option directly to your Gmail account, and teach in the tutorial below.

How the service works

Before moving the procedure, just reinforce how this function works. When one of your circles sends an email through this option, you receive the "Main" email box. However, if this person is not part of your circles, the message is sent to the "Social" box.

Moreover, in the latter case, that person may only contact you again if the message sent is answered, because then your email address is revealed to the sender.

Disabling direct mail

To deactivate or restrict it, as with your Gmail account loaded on the screen, click the Preferences button in the form of a gear, and choose the "Settings" option.

Then select the "General" tab and find the alternative "Email via Google+." By default, the option is set "Anyone on Google+," indicating that you can receive emails from any member of the social network that has in your circles.

However, you have three alternatives that can be chosen. If you want only the contacts added to your circles will be able to send emails to your Gmail account, choose the option "Circles" or "Circles extended" to receive messages also "friends of friends".

If you do not want to receive emails from Google's social network participants who do not have your Gmail address, choose "No". Finally, do not forget to click "Save changes" (at the bottom of page) so that your changes are stored correctly in the settings of the Google mail client.

There you go! Made the change, you start to have the active setting as the selected option. If you ever want to revert this procedure, follow the steps above and modify the alternative again to "Anyone on Google+."

[dannixx55]

I rarely use google plus, but I feel they need to do something about the settings, It's so hard to figure out the settings

[silverleafy]

i rarely use facebooks , on google plus no change.. even so is good to start a buisness on google +

[Mark]

I wrote 2 minutes before in a post that I a google fan, but Google+ is a big fail, nobody use this sh*t.

[martinmilcev]

I wrote 2 minutes before in a post that I a google fan, but Google+ is a big fail, nobody use this sh*t.

Yeah I'd agree, nobody uses Google+, it's one of the rear things that Google didn't succeed with.

[bluegreen]

I wrote 2 minutes before in a post that I a google fan, but Google+ is a big fail, nobody use this sh*t.

Yeah I'd agree, nobody uses Google+, it's one of the rear things that Google didn't succeed with.

I only use it to do some minijobs. It's a very complicated social media, they added too much things and the navigation it's not very user friendly plus it's a bit heavy for low spec computer/devices!

[cessy_08]

I have an account in Google+ but I rarely use it to share photos or connect with friends. Although it is quite helpful to me because I use the automatic backup feature so it syncs the photos in my phone to my account. I think that is a very cool feature.

[Alexandoy]

Is Google+ a kind of social media? From what I am reading in other forums, it's more like a hybrid where you can have several groups and emails. But I think it's just a prelude to prepare for crossing swords with Facebook. What do you say?

[Jotomy]

google plus is very big community / communication social site where you can have many communities and pages where you can select of our suitable niche and share your links, you also get more traffic from google plus.

[blair]

Maybe in the future I will have to learn how Google plus works and how I can utilize it just like any other social media sites. Right now there is just too much to learn and accomplish. I know there is some potential to it although my target niche is not yet engaged with Google plus

[iamshane487]

I have google+ . It's a great help to increase traffic on my blog site. I also use twitter, pinterest, and facebook. These social media really work when we want an additional exposure to monetize our blog. The google +'s layout has similarity in facebook, but its users are usually decent and professionals.

[thisnthat]

I only use it to do some minijobs. It's a very complicated social media, they added too much things and the navigation it's not very user friendly plus it's a bit heavy for low spec computer/devices!

Don't you find these issues surprising? I mean, especially coming from Google. They're a giant in the industry. You'd think they'd know better and produce a superior product, wouldn't you? I figured google + would be a huge hit when I first heard of it, but not so much.

[domondon1]

I'm not using google plus for sharing a post,I prefer facebook and twiiter

[mcliffi]

I do not think Google plus is like Facebook or any other social media platform.I also see it a collection of social sites that can be shared together on Google.

[castbound]

Don't you find these issues surprising? I mean, especially coming from Google. They're a giant in the industry. You'd think they'd know better and produce a superior product, wouldn't you? I figured google + would be a huge hit when I first heard of it, but not so much.

Yea..When Google + was announced I thought : "There's going to be big competition between Facebook and Google+ " but nah... there isn't because Google+ is totally different than Facebook.However,I find Google+ really handy for ranking websites on Google.

[bujingkujing]

i think it is a little bit confusing to use. i don't fully understand what it is for until now. thanks for the info!

[Allius]

I have google+ but I think that I never used. I prefer to use other others social networks like Facebook or Linkedin. Does anyone use Google+?