Greg Pilling

I have disabled google buzz. The privacy issues of publishing my email list among other things bothered me. The buzz went through contacts from work, from selling on ebay, and went ahead and followed/recommended them. Now any of those could see any one of my other contacts and make a connection with them. The last thing in my life that I need is some stranger to buzz my lovely wife and ask her “age, sex, location?” –

Step One!

There is a little link at the bottom of your screen in Gmail. Clicking this will turn your Buzz off. WARNING! if you do this ONLY, any Buzz contacts, posts or website linkings will still be visible to anyone on your lists. Why is this here in Step One you ask? It is because you might have seen this, clicked it and thought you were done. You aren’t.

the link at the bottom of the screen

Step Two!

(or one depending on how you look at it!)

Go to http://www.google.com/profiles and delete everything you can find. Kill it all. Delete your followers, delete your followed, block everything, remove personal data, and remove any links associated with your account. Delete Delete Delete

Step Three!

Now you can turn off Google Buzz in the picture above.

Spread the word to anyone with a google based email address (seach your address book for “@gmail.com”)

Email them this link: http://gregpilling.com/2010/02/disable-google-buzz/