Google Plus is the brand new social network and the most talked about setting in Google plus is privacy and this is the only thing which differentiated it from the other existing social networks. Its privacy options are the ones that made it different form Facebook, as they were more granular in nature. Today I am going to guide you on how to block someone on Google Plus thereby making your account more secure and maintain your privacy.

Actually we all need some privacy in our lives and the same applies to Google Plus. For example I don’t want all my 400 odd friends to know about my status updates. Also most of us have a habit of accepting all the friend requests and because of this you might end up being friends which some people whom you don’t like, this gives the need of blocking people from your account.

What happens when you ignore someone in Google Plus:

1. You won’t see any of their posts in your Google plus stream.
2. You won’t get any notification about their activities.
3. The third and the most important thing is that the person whom who have blocked from your profile will not get any notifications that you have blocked him.

Method 1: Block Someone whose already added to your Google+:

To start blocking someone on Google Plus, please follow below steps:

1. Go to your home tab and find any update from the person, whom you want to block.



2. Then on the right hand side of the option there is a small triangle click on it and select the option that says “BLOCK THIS PERSON”.
3. Now Google will open one more for confirm block. Click on Block button for confirm.

Method 2 to block someone from his/her Profile Page:

You can also block someone from their profile page.

1. First of all visit the profile page of the person whom you want to block.



2. Then in the side bar there is an option saying Block [person's name]. Select this option.
3. Confirm that you want to block that person and you are done.

Method 3 block someone whose already added to your Google+ Circles:

1. Navigate to the circles tab.
2. Select the circle in which you have placed the person you want to block, select the person click “More Actions” link on the right.
3. And Select Block, confirm the dialog and the person will be blocked from your profile.
4. You can also add the person you want to block to your blocked circle and the person will be automatically blocked.

So these were the ways you can use to block all of your unwanted friends on Google plus.

As Google Plus entered in the world of social networking, people began thinking that it will be the Facebook killer as it was packed with many features that Facebook doesn’t have. But among all those feature many people didn’t liked the long comment lists in their Google plus stream. Actually having long comment list under the posts makes your profile load slower and also it consumes more bandwidth.

I always wished that I could have a plug-in that could have restricted the comment lists on the individual posts. And for the same purpose today I am going to share a wonderful chrome extension that can help you to hide comments in Google plus stream.

Actually up till now Google plus doesn’t have any such kind of inbuilt mechanism or option that can help the users to hide long comment lists in there stream but I hope that Google plus will soon have some inbuilt option to give users more control on comments they see, but for now, this extension saves some space on your stream. It gives you more control on your Google plus stream, the way you want to see it.

Please note that this extension is giving you the control over Google plus stream only using your browser. If you try to see your profile on some other machine wherein this plug-in is not installed then you would not be able to control your comment stream.

How to Toggle and Hide Comments in Google Plus

So without wasting much of your time, I will come straight to the point. This extension (Golden View for Google+) hides any comments to posts within your stream and makes them available if and when you actually want to see them. Once installed, this extension will hide all the comments and will give you an option to toggle open it. Isn’t that great!!

All that you need to do is to follow these simple steps:
1) Download the plug-in from here.
2) After the download is complete. Install the plug in.
3) Once installation is complete, restart your browser.

So this was all about toggling and hiding comments in Google Plus using above mentioned plug-in.
Feel free to share your experience in the comments section below.