Google Buzz - Really Google? Really?

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

To answer the question, there is an itty-bitty link at the very bottom of gmail to "turn off buzz".

That's the only option. As I said, there is no way to make your updates private. If you uncheck the "make my full name searchable" box and then try to post something, it forces you to update your profile to make your full name searchable before you can post anything to buzz again. There is no way to make it private.

Yes there is when you do them from Buzz. And you don't have to link any other sites to it if you don't want to. However, it does seem overly complicated and they should have done a better job of making it easy. They should have foreseen the hysteria from the Facebook example.