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> I don’t mind curating my circles… to an extent. I added a few members and created a new circle, but had no desire to go through my thousands of contacts and organize every one.

Anybody else finds it weird that in gmail you get a hint when you write to a person who belongs to a group you write often together, that you should add the other people from the group, but Circles can't figure it out?

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Isn't it because of privacy issues? Google probably tried to avoid any Buzz-like backlash of people creeped out by them knowing who's who in their lives. Integration efforts like that can only succeed if people feel it's ok, which will come naturally if Plus succeeds.

Good point. I hope this is one of those things that will appear as the service matures, though maybe they did it to make you think more about who you are adding? Just speculation.

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