E-Dribble

In line with their plan of world domination, Google decided to turn GMail into a Facebook clone, with their most recent addition being “Buzz”. Most of us(myself included) found out how to turn it off. Not all were as charitable as I and began bitching in earnest.  You see, Google made it a royal pain in the ass to turn it off.  They let you think you were turning it off with the handy link at the bottom of the page when in reality you were only hiding it from your view, allowing their social network to gain users that didn’t know they were part of a social network any longer.

For those of us that despise social networking, Google has finally added the ability to actually opt out of the bullshit that is “Buzz“.

Or, it’s just another button that doesn’t do what they say.

If they hadn’t been too busy networking with pedophiles and 15 year old emos, Myspace Inc. might have noticed that we were in the midst of a recession and acted accordingly. Instead, they canned one third of their employees. Their stated reason? They wanted to get back to their roots”. It’s well known that Facebook was kicking their ass for some time. In reality, their resource stretching in an attempt to get back some real estate bit them in the ass.

I can see why Facebook took the lead in social networking, with incredibly hot promotional gimmicks like the “name grab” they had recently that went over like a lead balloon with anchors tied to it.

Well, at least we still have Twitter, although we almost lost it. Hehe, not really. But they did get some free advertising out of it, which is good.

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