See also:

1. •Etiquette for Google+
   

2. •Photographers on Google+
   

Terminology on Google+

1. •Account - your identification for accessing any of the Google products and changing your global settings (Your Account)
   

1. •Added - recently included someone in a circle ("Circled" is more frequently used after a longer time period)
   

1. •Block - prevent someone from sending posts to you and commenting on your posts
   

1. •Center stage - the main video window in a Hangout which shows the person who is speaking or the person who you have focused on
   

1. •“Circle Me!” - a request from another Plusher who wants you to add them to your circles, like “Friend Me!” or “Follow Me!”
   

1. •Circles - your own list of categories that you can organize the Plushers in your social network (Your Circles)
   

2.     “in your circles” - Plushers you are watching, “following”
   

3.     “add to circles” - like “friending”
   

4. 
   

5. •Circled - when someone has you in their circles in order to follow your Plushares
   

6.     “have circled you" or "have you in their circles"
   

7.       - people who are connecting with you, like “followers”
   

1. •Dashboard - provides easy access to manage and control the data that is associated with you in any of the Google products
   

   (Your Dashboard)

1. •Extended Circles - the Plushers in your Circles plus anyone in their Circles will see items in their Plustream if you share the item with your “Extended Circles” - if they are not following you directly it appears in their Incoming Plustream
   

1. •Google+ - "Google Plus", Google's social networking project Google+ - Learn More
   

1. •Green Room - the first screen you see after starting a Hangout that gives you a chance to check your video and mic (and hair) and invite people to your Hangout.
   

1. •Hangout - a video conference with up to 10 people
   

   (Start a Hangout)

1. •Huddle - group text chat
   

1. •Incoming - Plushares that were shared to you specifically or to a circle you have been added to, but the Plusher is not in any of your circles yet, will show up in the “Incoming” Plustream, like “@Mentions” on Twitter (Your Incoming)
   

1. •Instant Upload - When you use one of the Google+ mobile apps to take a picture or record a video, an option allows them to be automatically uploaded to a private album. You can go to the “... from your phone” album to share them.
   

1. •Invite - an offer to have someone join the “limited field trial” of Google+, or the act of sending such an invitation
   

1. •Join - sign up for Google+ or use your existing Google Profile
   

1. •Limited - indicates that a Plushare can only be seen by Plushers that it has been explicitly shared with
   

1. •Loop - Google+ formatted for small screen mobile devices
   

   (Your Loop)

1. •+Mention - While entering the text of a post, you can type the “+” key (or “@”), start typing the name of another Plusher or one of your circles and it will show a list of those you can mention. Click on one to mention them in your post. By doing so, you are also sharing it with them, essentially inviting them to the conversation.
   

1. •Notifications - short automatically-generated updates you receive when someone adds you to their circles, shares or comments on your Plushares, “+1”s your post, changes their profile photo, etc. (Your Notifications)
   

1. •Plus, “+1”, Plussed, "+1"d - You can recommend Plushares, comments, web sites, etc. to other Plushers by clicking the "+1" button. The “+1” button shows up in Google Search in addition to Google+ and is equivalent to “like”.
   

1. •Plushare(s) - short for "plus-share(s)", the various items (posts, photos, videos, etc.) in a Plustream, along with any comments on the item(s), or the act of creating one
   

1. •Plustream(s) - reverse chronological list(s) of items being shared by the Plushers in your Circles; conversely, you can push various items such as posts, photos and videos into the Plustreams of other Plushers who have you in their Circles
   

1. •Plusher(s) - short for "plus-sharer(s)" and pronounced like “pushers” with a “pl...”, the people, companies and organizations sharing things on Google+, like “tweeter(s)”
   

2. (sounds a better than “pushers” sharing things and also known as “posters”, but that term has another meaning)
   

1. •Plusisms - words, often starting with the letters “PL”, that imply something to do with Google+, in the same manner that words starting with “TW” imply something on Twitter.
   

1. •Post - one type of Plushare item which you have either created yourself or shared from other Plushers (not including any comments); other types include Photos and Videos
   

   (View Your Posts)

1. •Profile - information about you that other people can see - includes Name, Gender, Introduction, Bragging rights, Occupation, Education, Places lived, How people can reach you, Relationship, Looking for, Nickname and Other names (View Your Profile)
   

1. •Profile Summary - a couple lines of information when a Plusher is displayed in a list - consists of a their name and a second line of information from their profile, such as place of employment or the circle you have added them to
   

1. •Profile Card - a business-card-like widget you can embed on other sites on the web to link to your Google+ profile
   

2. for example:
   

1. •Public - indicates that anyone can see the item and comment on it, if comments are enabled
   

1. •+Public - when a Plushare is shared with +Public, then anyone can see it and comment on it, if comments are enabled.
   

1. •Settings - for Google+, you can change preferences such as when your notifications will be sent by e-mail or SMS and who can automatically tag you in photos. (Your Google+ Settings)
   

1. •Share - repost an item originally posted by someone else to include it in the Plustreams of Plushers who have circled you, like “retweet”
   

1. •Sparks - news, videos, etc. based on your interests
   

1. •Stream - a combined Plustream containing the items being shared by the people in all of your circles
   

1. •Tag - photos can be tagged with the names of people in them
   

1. •Thumbnail(s) - small preview versions of an image or video
   

1. •Verified - users who previously had a “verified name” in Google Profiles; Plushers are no longer able to be verified
   

   (see the Profile Card above for an example of a verified user)

Just to clarify, your Plustream contains items added by other Plushers while your Posts, Photos and Videos are outgoing items which will appear in the Plustream of other Plushers who have circled you.