Eric Schmidt Defends Buzz, Suggests Users Plagued By 'Confusion'

guardian.co.uk:

Google chief executive Eric Schmidt has suggested that users who complained about privacy invasions by Google Buzz were subject to "confusion".

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Comments

[ChicagoBob]

05:15 AM on 02/18/2010

The first time I opened Buzz I discovered I was already following three people. I did not choose them. Google did that for me.

There was no confusion on my part. Well, just for a moment as I figured out how to disable the whole silly thing.

Now the only time I look at Buzz is to verify that it is still disabled.

[MyTake]

12:26 AM on 02/18/2010

Oh, how nice that Schmidt descends from his Bilderberg Cloud to tell the masses they were confused.

Since he was just let off so easily by poster's who bothered to read his defending Davos as being a CONFIDENTIAL con flab of elite executives, it is time that we start questioning Schmidt's corporate relationship to the National Security Agency and just what information is Google routing to those vast NSA data mining farms.

If you think this Gmail Buzz breached your electronic privacy, how about your every keystroke going into the Google search engine, complete with IP and User Identity info, you would be very surprised on what NSA is doing with all this massive collected data.

[independent32955-2]

03:30 PM on 02/17/2010

if you want to create buzz about Buzz, telling potential Buzz users that current Buzz users are just idiots is probably not the buzz you were looking to create.

[Crass Innuendo]

02:55 PM on 02/17/2010

"Users are just stupid!"

Best PR defense ever?

*rofl*

[dreamsugar]

02:20 PM on 02/17/2010

Ah yes --- it's the "users" fault.......hummmm
If your idea isn't instinctively intuitive then the responsibility of usability falls on you sir -- Duh!

[Balzac]

04:43 PM on 02/17/2010

Google should hire you. People get paid a lot of money to say that.

[fusionfan]

02:17 PM on 02/17/2010

It doesn't take a genius to understand that outing the list of a person's email contacts without the user's permission might make a person mad.

That's why my first instinct always was to stay away from gmail.

[Cryostatic]

01:58 PM on 02/17/2010

Yeah, blaming the users never goes over very well. You'll get a lot more support just admitting that you screwed up and are making every effort to improve the user experience.

[SpacelySpaceSprockets]

01:07 PM on 02/17/2010

Maybe he should stop confusing people with his crap technology that strips people of their privacy automatically.