I turned Buzz off, and deleted all my posts. I’m not as upset as everybody else seems to be about privacy. I just think all the buzzing is annoying. I use Google primarily for productivity. Google Docs, Gmail, Google Reader are all tools that help me do my work more efficiently. Twitter is more than enough to keep me distracted.
But I have to say, we’re all a bunch of suckers. Google wanted to get us all sharing, and that’s exactly what we did. So here it is my over-sharing friends. “How I disabled Google Buzz and shared the experience with everyone I knew.”
Step 1: Navigate to my Google Profile and select the option to delete everything.
Step 2: Confirm that I did not change my mind in the last two seconds.
Step 3: Send an update to all my Twitter followers informing them that I turned off Buzz because I don’t need everyone knowing everything about me. Christ.
Step 4: Update my Google Chat status to inform all of my contacts that I’m not dead. I merely turned off Buzz. If they are still using it, they should feel stupid.
Step 5: write a blog post about how I turned off Google Buzz.
