Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
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Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
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Re: Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
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Re: Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
#3"You will automatically follow the people you e-mail and chat with on a regular basis."
I strongly dislike this. I regularly email business associates whom I would not interact with outside of our professional connections. I do not want those people automatically following me. I predict that privacy issues will have an even greater stake on a Google social platform than they already do on Facebook.
Re: Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
#4"You will automatically follow the people you e-mail and chat with on a regular basis." I strongly dislike this. I regularly email business associates whom I would not interact with outside of our professional connections. I do not want those people automatically following me. I predict that privacy issues will have an even greater stake on a Google social platform than they already do on Facebook.
I agree, I'd experience the exact same problems. I'm regularly emailing people who are complete strangers to me outside work, and many are complete strangers even when I'm at work. I don't want to be friends with these people, I've actively chosen not to be.
My personal life is where I have friends, my professional life is where I have colleagues. There's a line between the two that I don't cross, I've worked with family all my life and I don't let personal and professional cross.
Re: Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
#5They're also going to take on yammer.com
Re: Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
#6"You will automatically follow the people you e-mail and chat with on a regular basis." I strongly dislike this. I regularly email business associates whom I would not interact with outside of our professional connections. I do not want those people automatically following me. I predict that privacy issues will have an even greater stake on a Google social platform than they already do on Facebook.
I agree, I'd experience the exact same problems. I'm regularly emailing people who are complete strangers to me outside work, and many are complete strangers even when I'm at work. I don't want to be friends with these people, I've actively chosen not to be. My personal life is where I have friends, my professional life is where I have colleagues. There's a line between the two that I don't cross, I've worked with fa…
Well don't you have the same split in the form of a private email address and a personal one? If not then you should...
Re: Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
#7Yawn
Re: Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'
#8They're also going to take on yammer.com
That would be a good move, it would enrich the office apps they already have. Its not hard to create the features that yammer offers and google will whoop them on distribution alone.