PSA: Disabling Google BUZZ

[rolanni]

Instructions here

Comments

[lagilman]

I have left them a hopefully pity comment about how their intense and clear dislike of "opt-in" rather than "opt-out" is really making me think they're not worth the trouble of working-with...

[kinzel.livejournal.com]

laughing...
I just sent them a similar message about how forcing peopel to opt out *is evil* ...

[janetmk.livejournal.com]

I was speaking to a friend yesterday who'd casually decided to try Buzz and was mortified when he discovered that extremely personal and embarrassing stuff (from Google reader, I think) could be viewed by a couple of his neighbors with gmail accounts. It took him a long time to figure out how to get out of the hole he'd got into.

Do the Google folks have no imagination or concern for te privacy of their users?

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

Ummm . . .

What's "Google BUZZ"?

[rolanni.livejournal.com]

If you don't have gmail, you're safe. If you do have gmail -- check your sidebar.

BUZZ is some kind of social network that Google unilaterally decided the users of gmail would belong to.

Idiots.

[lagilman]

and that should have been "pithy" she said, after the first cup of coffee...

[stormsdotter.livejournal.com]

Bless you!

[(Anonymous)]

I was thinking of getting a secondary e-mail via g-mail. I think Goggle just ruled itself OUT.

Susan Cole
Orlando, FL

[sraun]

I suppose at this point I'm happy that Google mandated six character user names before I got my first gmail invite. Since I couldn't use my standard username, it has never been anything other than a very rarely used backup.

Isn't Google the company who's first principle is supposed to be "Do no evil"?

[muirecan.livejournal.com]

Oh joy. I had noticed the new icon but was hoping that if I ignored it it would ignore me. ::sigh::

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

That was superseded when they went for "Google Books" and the scanning project . . .

[thepouncer.livejournal.com]

Thank you.