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Well, they already have Google profiles. This Buzz thing just sounds like extra features on top of Google profiles. In fact, I posted on Facebook yesterday abo
by araneae 17y ago
Well, they already have Google profiles. This Buzz thing just sounds like extra features on top of Google profiles. In fact, I posted on Facebook yesterday about how I was sick of it and did anyone want to join me on Google profiles. No one did, and mostly people hadn't heard of it. But I definitely see the appeal of attaching everything to my e-mail address.
Also, a great deal of the appeal of Facebook, for me, is as an address book. But all the people I contact are in my GMail contacts list, and it's annoying to manually enter in things like their phone number or address. Now with Google profiles I won't have to look that stuff up on Facebook, because it should be in their Google profile.
- iron_ball 17y agoMy Android phone automatically syncs contact information from Facebook, so it's not like Google isn't open to that. I understand that Google's right hand doesn't always know what the left is doing, though.
- jlees 17y agoAttaching everything to my email address would be great if I could just change my primary gmail username. I'm a bit fed up of it now. I have secondary accounts (which are painful enough to manage in the light of Buzz etc), but I don't want to lose access to 7 years of email and contacts either. The only solution I can think of is setting up a new address and a forwarder...
- grinich 17y agoIf you have a some patience, you can copy all of your mail through IMAP. You can also export your contacts and filters.