Youtube has an “active sharing” fn, which is all or nothing. I wish that was selective, too, but right now it’s a checkbox for all or nothing. Simliar concept.

Oh, yeah, forgot, youtube is part of Google.

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There are three kinds of people who use the internet. The first kind are the ones who don’t really understand what’s going on, the ones who use facebook, google, myspace, they don’t know what “web 2.0″ means, all they know is that for the most part it’s cool.

The second kind of person are the entrepreneurs of the internet who are trying to find out what the people in the first group will think is cool. They add new features and try to “revolutionize” things constantly, whether they do so in an intuitive way or not. They roll out new features and whether the users in group 1 understand how it all works or not BE DAMNED!

Then there’s a third group. They are usually tech savy, and have very specific things they use the internet for. They understand things from a backroom perspective. I’m in that group. Those of us in that group suspect that the “web 2.0″ push is motivated by entrepreneurs who want more and more access to their customers, hence the sharing features and targeted ads that keep popping up all the time. We are the ones who desire an “opt out” from all these “features” because we suspect that it’s not about giving us what we want, but rather companies trying to wiggle their way into our lives so they can learn what we like to buy or who we want to vote for… Or whatever information is “bankable”.

I don’t “share” with anyone. I don’t like it when companies want me to “share” with anyone. I don’t like companies that create profiles for me that I have to go and clear of personal information after the fact. I want a solid opt out. Web 2.0 DOES NOT mean that I have to adopt each and every new, stupid feature that some company rolls out.

But thats almost beside the point. Having Google Reader reach out and touch random contacts from GMail without offering an opt out is just wrong. Why should my ex-girlfriend who I haven’t spoken to in months suddenly be popping up on my sidebar and me in hers? Maybe this isn’t as bad as Beacon, sure, but it demonstrates a similar dimwittedness on the part of these devs towards the unintended consequences of forcing new features onto users of a social network.

actually sounds like the features I want are already there. maybe this article isn’t pointless…

Another story is that is showed one man’s political leanings to his family, who then devolved into an email shouting match which ruined their xmas.”

Sorry #23… but in both cases those users were, pardon my french, fucking idiots… Google has never once pretended that the “Share” option google was anything but “public”, regardless of how the URL was obfuscated…

Honestly Erick, you’re better than this kind of reporting… this is a non-issue and people who consider this a “privacy issue” really don’t belong on the web… this is nothing…