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1. areyou+(OP)[view] [source] 2020-05-23 19:44:00
Google did something similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Buzz#Privacy
replies(3): >>seebs+23 >>throwp+Xb >>yaacov+WH1
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2. seebs+23[view] [source] 2020-05-23 20:10:32
>>areyou+(OP)
Google did something significantly worse -- and spent ages apologizing for it and never really recovered from the reputation hit, and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.
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3. throwp+Xb[view] [source] 2020-05-23 21:13:20
>>areyou+(OP)
Wow...

> Google Buzz publicly disclosed (on the user's Google profile) a list of the names of Gmail contacts that the user has most frequently emailed or chatted with.

Google Buzz is something you definitely don't want to be similar to.

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4. eitlan+9X[view] [source] [discussion] 2020-05-24 05:49:44
>>seebs+23
> and I suspect that negative impressions Buzz gave people were a contributing factor to G+'s total failure.

Absolutely.

Google+ became really nice towards the end, but HN kept hating it, and I guess partly because of Buzz.

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5. yaacov+WH1[view] [source] 2020-05-24 15:47:49
>>areyou+(OP)
The disaster that was Google Buzz has left a thick bureaucratic scar tissue designed to prevent something like that from happening again.

Here’s an old article about it: https://money.cnn.com/2012/01/26/technology/google_privacy/i...

I suspect TripleByte is about to learn some similar lessons.

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