Comments on: Google, these are not my friends. http://blog.seanbonner.com/2008/04/13/google-these-are-not-my-friends/ changing the world, one pixel at a time Tue, 06 Jan 2009 08:15:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: ttrentham http://blog.seanbonner.com/2008/04/13/google-these-are-not-my-friends/#comment-953 ttrentham Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:47:00 +0000 http://blog.seanbonner.com/2008/04/13/google-these-are-not-my-friends/#comment-953 Yeah, I've never been a fan of the way GMail/Google pulls every e-mail address in my inbox no matter who they may be from and starts doing things with them. The feature in Google Reader that you mention is particularly annoying. I've never really liked the way that shared item feature is implemented. If I'm going to share a link, I'm either going to e-mail it directly to someone that I think is interested or I'm going to link it on del.icio.us. I sometimes like that they automatically add e-mail addresses to your contacts list, but with enough addresses, it becomes unwieldy and the negatives outweigh the positives. Yeah, I’ve never been a fan of the way GMail/Google pulls every e-mail address in my inbox no matter who they may be from and starts doing things with them. The feature in Google Reader that you mention is particularly annoying. I’ve never really liked the way that shared item feature is implemented. If I’m going to share a link, I’m either going to e-mail it directly to someone that I think is interested or I’m going to link it on del.icio.us.

I sometimes like that they automatically add e-mail addresses to your contacts list, but with enough addresses, it becomes unwieldy and the negatives outweigh the positives.

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