Listen, 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

Listen, 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.