[Imcamericorps] On Google Buzz: important privacy info

[Nicole Pion]

I know many of us use gmail, so here is some useful info on their new Buzz
application.

I got this info from an amazing feminist/media list serv I'm on called WAM -
some of you may want to join.


Nicole


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Nisha Chittal <nchittal at gmail.com>
Date: Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 1:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WAM!] On Google Buzz: important privacy info
To: Jodi Jacobson <jacobsonjodi at gmail.com>
Cc: Deanna Zandt <deanna at deannazandt.com>, WAM list <
wamlist at googlegroups.com>


On of my colleagues also wrote a post about Google Buzz (including plenty of
details on fixing your privacy settings) on the NMS blog, might be helpful -


http://newmediastrategies.net/blog/post/whats-all-the-buzz-about-why-google-buzz/


Nisha Chittal
E: nchittal at gmail.com
T: 630-217-9282




On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:42 PM, Jodi Jacobson <jacobsonjodi at gmail.com>wrote:

>  Can I ask what is inevitably a stupid/naïve question in this group
> (thereby further underscoring my technological infancy?)
>
> Given how many networks, tools, etc are out there, and given so many people
> here and elsewhere are already using twitter, and many other tools, what is
> the argument for using yet another one?  Doesn’t it just dilute/disaggregate
> further?
>
> Real question.
>
>
>
> On 2/12/10 12:27 PM, "Deanna Zandt" <deanna at deannazandt.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hey WAM!mers,
>
> Coming out of my little cave to play tech steward for a second-- many of
> you, but not all of you, I'm sure, have heard about Google Buzz, the new
> social-networking offering from the giant. There are lots of pros and cons
> with it, but I wanted to make sure everyone on this list knows about the
> giant privacy hole: if you have a Gmail account, and you acknowledge that
> you'd like to try Buzz when it asks you, it will do two Bad Things™:
>
> -- display your contact list publicly. If you've signed up for Buzz, go
> here: http://is.gd/87eEU and uncheck the "Display the list..." box.
> -- automatically connect you to your frequent contacts list. Here's the
> best post I've seen about how terrible this can be:
> http://fugitivus.wordpress.com/2010/02/11/fuck-you-google/
>
> Many of you know that my position with on sharing social networks is very
> "more the merrier," with careful considerations taken, of course. But I
> advocate for that position because up until now, we've had a great deal of
> control over who we follow/friend, who we can block, what we decide to
> share. This move by Google is crazy, crazy bad, because it takes that
> control away from us.
>
> If you're a social-network fan wondering, btw, if you should get on board
> with Buzz, I say "meh." It looks just like Friendfeed, and it's
> snory-boring.
>
>
> cheers
> dz
>
>
> -=-=-=-=-
> Deanna Zandt
> deanna at deannazandt.com
> Site: http://www.deannazandt.com/
> Twitter: http://twitter.com/randomdeanna
> Facebook: http://facebook.com/deannaz
>
> Author: *Share This! How You Will Change the World with Social Networking*,
> Berrett-Koehler, June 2010
> http://www.sharethischange.com/
>
> "Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." -- Oscar Wilde
>
>
>
>
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Nicole Pion
Outreach and Development Adviser
AmeriCorps CTC VISTA
Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center

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