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Post by MinnaCaroline on Feb 14, 2010 21:35:31 GMT -5
I have a Gmail account. And last week I logged in to check my email and there was a new icon under my inbox that said "Buzz". I clicked on it and it told me I was already following these 10 people based on my most recent emails.
I find that its a lot like twitter and although I have a twitter account I don't tweet, not very often anyway. But only my closest friends and family have my gmail address account (mostly) so I feel like this in a way is different. Because with Twitter I have my work friends and my online friends but the people following me on buzz is mostly my family. Its kind of odd.
Like when Facebook took off and my mom joined it, it gave me a weird feeling. I'm so glad I have the islands! I'm still anonymous *for the most part* here!!
So ... the question is... have you heard of Google Buzz, do you like it? Hate it? Love it? Despise it? I'm curious!
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Post by New Dracora on Feb 14, 2010 21:45:27 GMT -5
I've yet to log into my gmail yet so I haven't yet looked at it yet - I tend to avoid online social networking setups like the plague so I dunno what to think atm. All that saying stuff and people actually know who I am? Actually being held accountable for what I say? *shudders*
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Post by MinnaCaroline on Feb 14, 2010 21:50:38 GMT -5
LOL!!! I can see the point from a business point of view... for example: You own a restaurant, you have a facebook account for your restaurant, you have a twitter account for your restaurant. You have customers that love your food and follow you online. One night you decide to have Bacon Wrapped BBQ shrimp free with any entree so you post it on your facebook account and twitter account which automatically gets uploaded to all your customer's mobile devices instantaneously and suddenly you have a full restaurant with all your regulars and then some because they spread the word.
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Post by Shelter from the Storm on Feb 15, 2010 20:59:08 GMT -5
I honestly had not heard of it until I stumbled on this thread. I use twitter A LOT, but mostly for professional communication. The problem with more social networking is that I don't have the patience for the latest stuff. When I went to Facebook, I gave up on MySpace. I never went back. I can't see me switching from Twitter to Buzz, unless my contacts switch too.
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Post by MinnaCaroline on Feb 15, 2010 21:04:46 GMT -5
exactly, unless you have gmail, you won't have heard of it. the thing is, millions of people use gmail so they automatically had a customer base for it. Lots of people screamed Privacy issues... but then if you sign up for gmail, you're signing that contract so ... I guess if they want to force it on people they can, but they also have a button that says "disable Buzz" so people can't get too angry. You can also link your tweets to your buzz. I'm still going back and forth on it.
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Apparently there wasn't an option not to use it until recently. If you had Gmail, you had Buzz. I'm not okay with that.
No, there's always been an option to turn it off - in small type at the bottom of the page. What the complaints are about are that it was on by default (even if you clicked "no thanks" to hearing information about it), and apparently exposed people's contacts by automatically following others and making public who you were following.
When I tested it on the first day, it didn't expose my contacts, but I mostly only receive mail with my gmail account, so maybe I didn't hit some threshold.