Buzz Vs. Facebook.
Feb. 12th, 2010 10:18 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sobriqueOk, so my one true blog remains livejournal - I have a facebook account, because people I know have a facebook account, and facebook is better suited to 'one liners'.
But I like discussions too.
One of the discussions recently, is Google Buzz - for those that somehow managed to miss it, Google have enabled a 'status update broadcast' feature, within gmail.
It hooks into google reader, and a few other things I don't really use (I think I see a twitter/flickr icon there too?)
But I've just seen a few people on facebook rabble rabbling over the 'security and privacy' of Buzz. It's really not that exciting - by default, Buzz populates follower feeds when you first sign up to it - which means if you send gmails back and forth to someone (who is also on gmail) a lot, then people might be able to see them as a 'contact' on Buzz.
That's all. You can turn this off, too, but by default Buzz has open follower lists.
The other is location tagging on posts - this is a feature you have to turn on, so again, something I think there's just no reason to get excited about.
So sure, if you don't already have a Facebook, then you have reason to grumble at the idea. But I hate to break it to you, but Facebook's default privacy really isn't all that great either - do you recall recently, they changed their privacy statement?
I'd invite you all to review it:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=%20322194465300
"Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available, and therefore do not have privacy settings"
*shrug*. From what I've seen of Buzz so far, I'm thinking I prefer it to Facebook. Then again, I prefer LJ to either, and still have a facebook account, simply because it's become clear that what I'm looking for, isn't the same as what everyone else is looking for.
But I like discussions too.
One of the discussions recently, is Google Buzz - for those that somehow managed to miss it, Google have enabled a 'status update broadcast' feature, within gmail.
It hooks into google reader, and a few other things I don't really use (I think I see a twitter/flickr icon there too?)
But I've just seen a few people on facebook rabble rabbling over the 'security and privacy' of Buzz. It's really not that exciting - by default, Buzz populates follower feeds when you first sign up to it - which means if you send gmails back and forth to someone (who is also on gmail) a lot, then people might be able to see them as a 'contact' on Buzz.
That's all. You can turn this off, too, but by default Buzz has open follower lists.
The other is location tagging on posts - this is a feature you have to turn on, so again, something I think there's just no reason to get excited about.
So sure, if you don't already have a Facebook, then you have reason to grumble at the idea. But I hate to break it to you, but Facebook's default privacy really isn't all that great either - do you recall recently, they changed their privacy statement?
I'd invite you all to review it:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=%20322194465300
"Certain categories of information such as your name, profile photo, list of friends and pages you are a fan of, gender, and networks you belong to are considered publicly available, and therefore do not have privacy settings"
*shrug*. From what I've seen of Buzz so far, I'm thinking I prefer it to Facebook. Then again, I prefer LJ to either, and still have a facebook account, simply because it's become clear that what I'm looking for, isn't the same as what everyone else is looking for.
