Does anyone else find it weird that Google wants so much personal information from us? A cell phone number to sign up for a blog, really? like when Google's girlfriend breaks up with them they can call me in the wee hours of the morning just to have a friendly chat? bend my ear about heart break and that jerk Yahoo who stole his chick. How when she left facebook for him, that he thought she was a changed person, and would never leave him. No way, cause Google is the go to guy right?, Always has all of the answers?
Get real! that, coinciding with every link I click on, every new page that I'm sent to once inside, practically forces me to sign up for google+, makes me start to think that maybe google's ex has it right, and leaving that dude was the right move. Besides all of this "needed" info they require from me, for seemingly obscure "security" reasons, I don't really have time to think of clever quip's to impress my "friends"(some I've never actually met in person) and stroke my own ego, everytime I have a free minute in my day. If I had a turkey or a ham sandwich for lunch, it should be between my digestive system and I, and of no consequence to anyone else. Though obviously my mentality about social media may change within this current semester. and who knows?, maybe after all of this is done. I may just rejoin the herd.
Yeah, I'm getting fed up with the whole Google+ thing too. I may have to start exploring other options for student blogs.
ReplyDeleteI agree, websites ask for so much info now. All they should need is a username, password, and maybe an e-mail address.
ReplyDeleteYeah Google's interest in me is a little creepy, it's kinda like the stalker you just can't get rid of. I think Google + is just a ploy to make us think that Google has changed his ways and we should take him back, I know I'm locking my computer when I go to bed tonight!
ReplyDeleteEverything online is absurd. Privacy is gone if we give in to all of these different websites. Google is the least of our worries. Yet through this class I am having to give in to all of these websites and connections I have always avoided.
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