Google Buzz - Really Google? Really? - Page 2

katiesue · 02-11-2010, 11:51 AM

Gmail derail - I just started using my gmail more since my android doesn't like to synch with my yahoo email. In GMail if I say I want to always show photos from sender - all I get when I open any of their emails is boxes and the little teeny photo icon where any photos would be. It seems to do it with every sender I've said I want to see photos. Ideas?

Stan4dSteph · 02-11-2010, 12:23 PM

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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.

Ghoulish Delight · 02-11-2010, 12:27 PM

Oh, I see it now.

It's like they went out of their way to make this stuff completely unintuitive. I still can't find a link anywhere on gmail to the profile editing page, the only way I can get there is to use the direct link from the column I posted.

ETA: ah, found it. Setting [top of the page] -> Accounts and Import tab -> Google Account Settings -> Edit Profile. Super straight forward

Stan4dSteph · 02-15-2010, 07:16 PM

I turned mine off after it started adding people I had no intention of following.

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katiesue Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: San Diego Posts: 4,678	Gmail derail - I just started using my gmail more since my android doesn't like to synch with my yahoo email. In GMail if I say I want to always show photos from sender - all I get when I open any of their emails is boxes and the little teeny photo icon where any photos would be. It seems to do it with every sender I've said I want to see photos. Ideas? __________________ My life is so exciting I can hardly stand it.
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Ghoulish Delight I Floop the Pig Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Alternative Swankstyle Posts: 19,348	Oh, I see it now. It's like they went out of their way to make this stuff completely unintuitive. I still can't find a link anywhere on gmail to the profile editing page, the only way I can get there is to use the direct link from the column I posted. ETA: ah, found it. Setting [top of the page] -> Accounts and Import tab -> Google Account Settings -> Edit Profile. Super straight forward __________________ 'He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me.' -TJ
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Stan4dSteph Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: East Bay Area, CA Posts: 3,156	I turned mine off after it started adding people I had no intention of following.
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