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Google Tweaks Buzz To Tackle Privacy Concerns
CWmike writes "Just two days after launching its Buzz social networking tools, Google said Thursday night that it had tweaked the technology to address early privacy concerns. Google said in a blog post that the quick updates makes it easier for users to block access to their pages and eases the path to finding two privacy features. 'We've had plenty of feature requests, and some direct feedback,' wrote Todd Jackson, a product manager for Gmail and Google Buzz, in the blog post. 'In particular there's been concern from some people who thought their contacts were being made public without their knowledge (in particular the lists of people they follow, and the people following them). In addition, others felt they had too little control over who could follow them and were upset that they lacked the ability to block people who didn't yet have public profiles from following them.'"
So why aren't you pissed off with Twitter? Anyone can follow me on Twitter.. if I want to do some "private" feed I need to say I want that.
How we know is more important than what we know.
I'm so upset I could just slit my wrists!
I don't put any critical details on my Google Profile, and Google hates me for it! They HATE me! Why do they hate me so much?!? I'm not ugly or fat? Well, maybe fat...
But yeah, I don't have my bio or any other crucial details, so Google says they don't want my profile to be public! I tried making it public, but they wanted more details and won't let it go up on their list. I email LOTS of people! But when Buzz came along, it just, like, TOTALLY IGNORED ME!!
Oh, sure, it activated itself and everything, but because my profile wasn't public-hate you SO MUCH Google-I got no followers! WHYYYYY?!? I WANT people to follow meeee!
I see how they are. I see! "Do no evil", huh? I'll show you! Just because I don't post all of my life history on your stupid website doesn't mean you can't control MY SOCIAL LIFE!
JERKS!
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