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Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out," adding that the slogan was "also a bit of
by amix 17y ago
Buchheit, the creator of Gmail, said he "wanted something that, once you put it in there, would be hard to take out," adding that the slogan was "also a bit of a jab at a lot of the other companies, especially our competitors, who at the time, in our opinion, were kind of exploiting the users to some extent."
from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_be_evil http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dont_be_evil
Exploiting users privacy in order to build a social network is evil - - and saying "I'm sorry" and fixing the issue when you have exploited millions of users does not make Google's Buzz act less evil.
An analogy could be to spam millions of people to build a social network - - and then you say "I'm sorry, we won't spam any longer, see we fixed it". Is this acceptable? I say no. They should be accountable for their actions and be punished like spammers get punished.
- rpdillon 17y agoListen, when they rolled out Buzz, it showed a giant splash screen and asked if you want to try it or not. I have a screenshot of this screen. There were two links at the bottom that either allowed you to try it out, or to not use it and go to GMail. If individuals are hung up about privacy, they don't have to join. If they do join, I have a whole set of screenshots I took before the revamp on Thursday showing all the ways they could configure Buzz before it was activated. If users actually bothered to read, Google's plan would have worked well. Unfortunately, people who say they're hung up on privacy can't be bothered to read how to protect it when they join a new social network, yet, have plenty of time to blog about it to complain afterwards. Irony, that.