What if Government had a Google Buzz moment?
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What if Government had a Google Buzz moment?
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#2This makes me think: what should Google do to recover from this? People are angry, they feel violated and betrayed. It's a public relations disaster.
My opinion is that Google needs to draw a line under this whole issue. They need to hold up their hands say "you know what, we didn't realize what we were doing here but we get it now, this was wrong, we're sorry." And within hours of making that statement, pull the whole product off the Internet, and send massive bunches of flowers to the people worst and most publicly affected by the fiasco. In the end, Google is a company with a huge amount of our personal data who's success depends on us trusting them with that data. The precariousness of Google's possession of personal data is debated routinely. And so far a lot of those discussions conclude with someone citing their motto and impeccable past records (the China thing was awesome too). What now? Now, that record has been tarnished. At what cost should that record be maintained? I think killing off Buzz is a small price.
Google really needs to show everyone how seriously it takes people's privacy. I hope they don't miss this opportunity to demonstrate that.
Re: What if Government had a Google Buzz moment?
#3This makes me think: what should Google do to recover from this? People are angry, they feel violated and betrayed. It's a public relations disaster. My opinion is that Google needs to draw a line under this whole issue. They need to hold up their hands say "you know what, we didn't realize what we were doing here but we get it now, this was wrong, we're sorry." And within hours of making that statement, pull the who…
Who is angry? I'm not. They need to fix the privacy issues but not pull the whole thing.
Re: What if Government had a Google Buzz moment?
#4This makes me think: what should Google do to recover from this? People are angry, they feel violated and betrayed. It's a public relations disaster. My opinion is that Google needs to draw a line under this whole issue. They need to hold up their hands say "you know what, we didn't realize what we were doing here but we get it now, this was wrong, we're sorry." And within hours of making that statement, pull the who…
Who is angry? I'm not. They need to fix the privacy issues but not pull the whole thing.
Well, I am. I'm willing to stop using gmail if Google doesn't step back.
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#6This makes me think: what should Google do to recover from this? People are angry, they feel violated and betrayed. It's a public relations disaster. My opinion is that Google needs to draw a line under this whole issue. They need to hold up their hands say "you know what, we didn't realize what we were doing here but we get it now, this was wrong, we're sorry." And within hours of making that statement, pull the who…
I am entirely okay with everything they've done. People need to stop overreacting.
They hand held me through the whole Buzz process and all of the defaults were great. All of my non-technical friends also love it. They made it very easy for us to connect and chose settings that work for most people.
The key thing is though that if you don't like Buzz, don't use it. If you don't like Google Profiles, don't make one.
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#7This makes me think: what should Google do to recover from this? People are angry, they feel violated and betrayed. It's a public relations disaster. My opinion is that Google needs to draw a line under this whole issue. They need to hold up their hands say "you know what, we didn't realize what we were doing here but we get it now, this was wrong, we're sorry." And within hours of making that statement, pull the who…
Who is angry? I'm not. They need to fix the privacy issues but not pull the whole thing.
I'm also not angry. I actually think it's quite an interesting situation: let's see how agile Google still is.
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#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Well, I am. I'm willing to stop using gmail if Google doesn't step back.
Why not just disable it? It's not difficult.
I removed the "auto-added" things, then switched off "buzz"... but I got many "followers" after that (Buzz can be hidden but not disabled!).
It was crazy to see conversations of people I know speaking with others... GET OFF MY LAWN, YOU FUCKING BUZZ!
Re: What if Government had a Google Buzz moment?
#10Sort of makes me wonder - is it possible to build a social graph from public records? Does something like this exist already?