Google Buzz - Really Google? Really?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

Just shut it off then.

Originally Posted by BarTopDancer

How?

Originally Posted by Stan4dSteph

Are you on it already? If not, don't opt in. You can also make your updates private.

I agree that it should be an opt-in rather than opt-out though.

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.

[BarTopDancer]

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".

Thanks!

It seems to be an interesting concept but I'm not ok with the lack of privacy and it's grabbing of and publishing random stuff. Especially since I use my email address for resume submission. I'll be willing to look at it again if they update/enhance the privacy options.

[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.