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How to Do Everything in Google Buzz (Including Turn It Off)

26 points by ashishbharthi 17y ago

waterlesscloud 17y ago
I enjoyed this little experiment. See people talking about privacy issues in Buzz threads: https://mail.google.com/mail/?uip=1#buzz/search/privacy https://mail.google.com/mail/?uip=1#buzz/search/privacy
- tokenadult 17y ago
  Interesting that I can see this, which I suppose is your point. I liked this comment: "Why use FB if I can import all my friends and stop visiting the site and its shitty, never ending stream of Farmville or whatever other moron game is currently in vogue." That's why there is space to compete with Facebook. P.S. I like too that Google Buzz posts can be edited, as posts can be edited here (for a time). P.P.S. AFTER EDIT: I see Google Buzz is actually less usable than Facebook, by quite a lot, in setting up particular groups of friends to see messages that are not world-viewable. There is a lot of battling back and forth among feature sets. I like that Buzz posts are editable. I like that a lot. But Buzz still needs work in other aspects of the user experience.
mattwdelong 17y ago
It's funny that the first thing people ask is how to turn it off. If you are reading these comments only opposed to reading the entire article, then you can just goto the bottom of the page and under gmail views there is a link to turn it off. Seemingly simple, but very obscure location.
- est 17y ago
  technically it's just hiding. I hope I can delete this service completely in Google Dashboard.
MikeCapone 17y ago
My experience with Google Buzz so far has been that everybody on it is complaining, but everybody's writing tons of comments and entries and starting discussions in a way that I haven't seen on Twitter or even Facebook. Maybe it's just the crowd I hang with, but to me that seems to be a good sign (not the complaining, but how it sucks you in and makes it easy to participate).
- jff 17y ago
  My friends and I have been posting a lot too, but mostly we've been posting "YOU BUZZIN BRO?" and "Buzz sucks".
rwhitman 17y ago
The thing that pisses me off about Buzz is the fact that it just arrogantly assumed that A) I wanted to be a part of it and B) that it had the right to determine what my friend relationships are. I really feel like a social network needs to gain my trust and acceptance before I join it. I just don't want people "friending" their way into my life without my consent. I really felt like my Gmail was violated by some annoying machine that muscled its way in, demanded I interact with it and then flooded my inbox with comments by all the most irritating people I've deliberately unfriended elsewhere. I'm sorry but I'm just not letting Google circumvent the community building pathway that every other social network has had to endure. Switched off.
- deleted 17y ago
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- jeffmould 17y ago
  I couldn't agree more. There are some people who I send emails to that are not my friends, nor do I want to socially interact with them, and to assume that because I sent something through gmail to them that they are indeed my friend is a huge issue for me. I like the concept behind Buzz and think it has potential, but they should not auto-follow people in your contact list by default.

26 points by ashishbharthi 17y ago

I enjoyed this little experiment. See people talking about privacy issues in Buzz threads: https://mail.google.com/mail/?uip=1#buzz/search/privacy https://mail.google.com/mail/?uip=1#buzz/search/privacy

tokenadult 17y ago
Interesting that I can see this, which I suppose is your point. I liked this comment: "Why use FB if I can import all my friends and stop visiting the site and its shitty, never ending stream of Farmville or whatever other moron game is currently in vogue." That's why there is space to compete with Facebook. P.S. I like too that Google Buzz posts can be edited, as posts can be edited here (for a time). P.P.S. AFTER EDIT: I see Google Buzz is actually less usable than Facebook, by quite a lot, in setting up particular groups of friends to see messages that are not world-viewable. There is a lot of battling back and forth among feature sets. I like that Buzz posts are editable. I like that a lot. But Buzz still needs work in other aspects of the user experience.

mattwdelong 17y ago

It's funny that the first thing people ask is how to turn it off. If you are reading these comments only opposed to reading the entire article, then you can just goto the bottom of the page and under gmail views there is a link to turn it off. Seemingly simple, but very obscure location.

est 17y ago
technically it's just hiding. I hope I can delete this service completely in Google Dashboard.

MikeCapone 17y ago

My experience with Google Buzz so far has been that everybody on it is complaining, but everybody's writing tons of comments and entries and starting discussions in a way that I haven't seen on Twitter or even Facebook. Maybe it's just the crowd I hang with, but to me that seems to be a good sign (not the complaining, but how it sucks you in and makes it easy to participate).

jff 17y ago
My friends and I have been posting a lot too, but mostly we've been posting "YOU BUZZIN BRO?" and "Buzz sucks".

rwhitman 17y ago

The thing that pisses me off about Buzz is the fact that it just arrogantly assumed that A) I wanted to be a part of it and B) that it had the right to determine what my friend relationships are. I really feel like a social network needs to gain my trust and acceptance before I join it. I just don't want people "friending" their way into my life without my consent. I really felt like my Gmail was violated by some annoying machine that muscled its way in, demanded I interact with it and then flooded my inbox with comments by all the most irritating people I've deliberately unfriended elsewhere. I'm sorry but I'm just not letting Google circumvent the community building pathway that every other social network has had to endure. Switched off.

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jeffmould 17y ago
I couldn't agree more. There are some people who I send emails to that are not my friends, nor do I want to socially interact with them, and to assume that because I sent something through gmail to them that they are indeed my friend is a huge issue for me. I like the concept behind Buzz and think it has potential, but they should not auto-follow people in your contact list by default.