Googley things...

[byslantedlight]

Google Buzz - gargh! How many different "social networks" are we supposed to be able to cope with?!

But on the bright side - in case there's other people as slow as I am to pick up on things - I tried using Google Calendar to remind me about something via my email, and it's just worked beautifully! And since I have googlemail open all the time, it might even turn out to be more useful than my mobile for that sort of thing - hmmn!

Comments

[epistrophia.livejournal.com]

Are you aware of the security/privacy issues around Buzz? Bit worrying...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've been reading up about them - I actually don't think they're that worrying, and it sounds like they've fixed the ones that were (displaying email addresses). But alot of them seem to have been made by people who didn't think about the implications of their technology (not Buzz, but having a public profile, or using their iphone's location thingie, for example). I didn't set my profile to "public" in the first place, so apparently I shouldn't show up as anyone's "Follower", for example. (It's not a sandal, it's a shoe! *g*)

[epistrophia.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yes, it looks like it's only the people who are big on filling in forms who might have problems. My "real" profile only had my name on (which was mostly in my email address anyway) and I haven't actually checked the epistrophia one.

The annoying thing is that it set me up to follow people I barely know. Not that I'm "Buzzing" anyway (yet?) but I have no interest in the Buzzes (if that's the word) of someone I've never met but have emailed twice in a professional capacity...

Now I've read in more detail about the issues with Buzz, I think that they're not the type of issues that would affect me - or most of the people I know. I'm too cautious. Or lazy...

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

I hardly fill in anything online - I'm a real wimp about it actually! Know what you mean about being given people you don't necessarily know though - bizarrely random selection - a la computers, not people I guess...

T'interweb is so odd - on the one hand, I wouldn't have met or made such fab friends without it, so it's definitely got potential to bring people together; on the other hand it can go so spectacularly wrong when there's no personal input into things that it's scary... *g*

[epistrophia.livejournal.com]

T'interweb is so odd - on the one hand, I wouldn't have met or made such fab friends without it, so it's definitely got potential to bring people together

So true... D'you wanna be in my PhD? *g*

[byslantedlight.livejournal.com]

Heee! Sure! I'd offer to let you be in mine, but unless you're really old and have been in both the Royal Navy and the Bering Sea... *g*