Comments on: Google Buzz might reveal your secrets https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/ Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:29:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: Taylor https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514490 Thu, 29 Apr 2010 06:29:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514490 Sheep go to heaven…. goats go to hell.

]]> By: rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514489 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 10:44:52 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514489 goats are nice.

]]> By: MadScientist https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514488 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 07:23:27 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514488 I use Gmail but long for the long lost days of simpler email clients that didn’t offer all your stuff to the world. Well, technically they did because hardly anyone ran secure mail relays. Come to think of it, hardly anyone runs secure mail relays even today. I don’t mind the chat thing (as long as I get to choose which people can see that I’m logged in and who can chat with me); the old UNIX ‘message’ command has to have been one of the most abused tools in history – and idiots loved to use ‘banner’ on top of that. (banner < /misc/complete_works_of_shakespeare | message 'poor_victim') but otherwise 'message' was the equivalent of this chat thing. I know some people who love the whole googlesphere - but I loathe it. I find all the google stuff (gmail is barely tolerable at the moment) far too invasive and imposing - like the early versions of 'StarOffice' which hijacked your MSWinduhs desktop. So I have no google maps, no google desktop, no google earth, and I scream at my boss if he ever suggests I install some googlecrap. Unfortunately google is the only half sensible search engine remaining.

]]> By: KristinMH https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514487 Fri, 12 Feb 2010 00:58:09 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514487 Wow, she really doesn’t like you, does she.

Anyway, I don’t get why Google is trying to turn Gmail into Twitter, but apparently they’re fixing it. I don’t use Gmail myself, so I will be over here reading R. Crumb’s “Genesis”.

]]> By: Ellie https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514486 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:45:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514486 Agreed. Nothing that I find particularly scary about the whole thing, except it’s utterly stupid defaults. They have caused me to turn the whole thing off rather than spend time getting to understand it. The first person to start following me was my boss, sod that!

]]> By: Treppenwitz https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514485 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:29:25 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514485 It’s worth noting that you can unshare Google Reader and Picasa. You can also prevent your full name from being displayed. Stupid default settings, though.

]]> By: Anon https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514484 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 20:05:33 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514484 I would avoid going there if she would think you are FOG and wish to remain anonymous.

]]> By: jj https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514483 Thu, 11 Feb 2010 19:56:14 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/02/11/google-buzz-might-reveal-your/#comment-514483 They’ve been covering this like mad over at Gizmodo. I downloaded the newest Google Maps for my Android phone, and saw this new “Buzz” crap. Well, I am now officially freaked about our Google overlords. I may just have to give up on using google in general.

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