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Google aims to take on Facebook with new social feature called 'Buzz'

• deleted 17y ago
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• synnik 17y ago
  "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.
  • electromagnetic 17y ago
    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.
    • xal 17y ago
      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...
• yashodhan 17y ago
  They're also going to take on yammer.com
  • theprodigy 17y ago
    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.
• apower 17y ago
  Yawn