Google Buzz

Whatever it is it's already annoying the crap out of me. Everytime I try to check my gmail I have to see that ad and click past it.
 
Not sure, I think it like facebook alernative. I just started to use it today.
 
I just saw it myself. If it is a Facebook clone, it's going to try to get people to join in on G-mail. I don't care for any of these "social networks".
 
I was trying to figure out what it was. I was trying to check my gmail and I had to click through it.
 
Haven't got the faintest idea what it is supposed to be, noticed it also when logging to my mailbox. One lazily used Facebook account is enough for me, I'll have my email as just.. eh.. email, thanks. :)
 
I think I'll enable it and then turn most of the settings to max privacy. Google has some amazing tools, and though I don't currently see a need for this one, we'll see where it goes.
 
I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in these so called social networks either.
 
I didn't enable it. I have a Hyves-account for sharing photo's and some other info with my family and a few close friends, but that's it. I am also really wondering why people would want to tell the world what they are doing every minute.
 
gajinoz said:
I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in these so called social networks either.
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+1 :thumbup:

However, for those of you who are using Buzz you might want to read this...

"First, you automatically follow everyone in your Gmail contact list, and that information is publicly available in your profile, by default, to everyone who visits your profile. It's available with helpful "follow" links too--wow, you can expand your Buzz network so fast by harvesting the personal contact lists of other people!

To hide the list of followers/followees from your profile page, you have to click Edit Profile and uncheck the box next to Display the list of people I'm following and people following me. Why that option isn't obvious on the Buzz page itself--well, decide for yourself."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-10451428-256.html
 
I was watching something on G4 and there was like a little interview about Google Buzz. They say it has lots of privacy issues and you automatically follow people who you have emailed so if you were doing thing you should not be doing you could be exposed :eek:
And google did claim that the aim of Buzz was to get a part of the social networking pie before Twitter,Myspace, and Facebook took over.
 
BlackHills said:
+1 :thumbup:

However, for those of you who are using Buzz you might want to read this...

"First, you automatically follow everyone in your Gmail contact list, and that information is publicly available in your profile, by default, to everyone who visits your profile. It's available with helpful "follow" links too--wow, you can expand your Buzz network so fast by harvesting the personal contact lists of other people!

To hide the list of followers/followees from your profile page, you have to click Edit Profile and uncheck the box next to Display the list of people I'm following and people following me. Why that option isn't obvious on the Buzz page itself--well, decide for yourself."

http://news.cnet.com/8301-31322_3-10451428-256.html
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Whoa! After reading that and the comment from somebody saying she'd found Buzz turned on and she never turned it on, I went to my gmail account. I haven't been there for a long time; I access my gmail with Thunderbird. I found Buzz was turned on! I also found something called "Chat" was turned on, and I never turned that on either.

Log in to your gmail account. (You'll have to click through the Buzz spam screen to get to it.) Scroll to the bottom. I predict you will find buttons to "turn off chat" and "turn off Buzz." Click them.

That will change them into buttons that say "turn on" instead, just in case you ever want to turn them on. :mad:
 
Holy crap!! Cougar, you were right. Google had, without my knowledge or permission, turned on Chat and Buzz on my gmail account. I would have never discovered that, way down at the bottom of my account page, in the sneaky small print. Both disabled now.

Thanks!
 
Cougar Allen said:
Log in to your gmail account. (You'll have to click through the Buzz spam screen to get to it.) Scroll to the bottom. I predict you will find buttons to "turn off chat" and "turn off Buzz." Click them.

That will change them into buttons that say "turn on" instead, just in case you ever want to turn them on. :mad:
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Correct. On mine the chat was turned off fortunately but that buzz crap was on. Soon fixed that. Thanks a lot google! :grumpy:

Speaking of which, I'm trying to work out how to turn off chat in Yahoo mail. Even though I've got "invisible" set I still get zillions of chat requests from obvious spammers. I'd say that Yahoo and google are at about the same scumbag level.
 
I assume this only applies if you've made a google profile but....

Disabling Buzz

If Buzz isn't for you, you can turn it off it by clicking the turn off buzz link at the bottom of your Gmail (it's near the basic HTML link). Please note that this will only remove the Buzz label from your Gmail account.

To completely stop using Google Buzz, you also need to block all followers and delete your Google profile (which will delete all of your posts and connected sites) before clicking the turn off buzz link.
 
This is interesting. Stealth snooping. Last night, I wanted to find out more about Facebook, and found that they recently changed their privacy settings without making it clear to their subscribers they were doing so. They went to a system like this Buzz, where your records can be largely open to people you don't know when you thought the system was opt-in instead of opt-out.

I just checked my gmail account and as I recalled, I had turned chat off. But buzz was turned on. Not any more -- thanks for the warning!
 
I just discovered, when I started digging into my Yahoo profile that not only was chat turned on but they had helpfully checked the boxes for me that requested my list of "connections" be sent to undefined "3rd parties".

Where does the scumbaggery end?

Time to dig deeper into these two sleazy operators I think. I wonder what else I've been signed up for. :mad:
 
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