This whole thing makes me want to use fewer of Google's products.
Yes, it's terribly simple. The good guys are always stalwart and true, the bad guys are easily distinguished by their pointy horns or black hats, and, uh, we always defeat them and save the day. No one ever dies, and everybody lives happily ever after.
Giles ,'Conversations with Dead People'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
askye - Jul 26, 2011 8:53:33 am PDT #18105 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Tom Scola - Jul 26, 2011 8:55:44 am PDT #18106 of 30001
They pay me in WOIMS
You're not Google's customer. Google's advertisers are their customers. You're Google's product.
Jesse - Jul 26, 2011 8:57:10 am PDT #18107 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Ditto Facebook, of course. I do think the different ways they (mis)treat users are interesting, in some kind of corporate-culture-analysis way.
Amy - Jul 26, 2011 8:58:31 am PDT #18108 of 30001
Because books.
Now I'm nervous. My Gmail email account is my only account, really. I'm using the Internet wrong.
megan walker - Jul 26, 2011 8:58:32 am PDT #18109 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
It makes me a little sad I chose Blogger and not Wordpress, which is the only thing I have associated with my gmail account that is not a person I know (since I use my Yahoo for all other online activity). My emails are too perfect to want to have to shed either.
megan walker - Jul 26, 2011 9:02:21 am PDT #18110 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Speaking of online corporations, I just opened an Ally checking account with the idea that I'll eventually close my Chase account. Anybody use them that can report on their ATM fee refund system? I refuse to pay ATM fees and have zero interest if there will be any charge associated with (domestic) withdrawals.
askye - Jul 26, 2011 9:03:24 am PDT #18111 of 30001
Thrive to spite them
Google's applications then, I guess that's the better word for it.
How is this - it makes me want to stop using Gmail, Chrome, Google, Google Docs, and anything else like that I use.
Better?
Kate P. - Jul 26, 2011 9:21:04 am PDT #18112 of 30001
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
YES. Crisp days that are cool but sunny, grey days with fog and drizzle, and drifts of fallen leaves to scuffle through. Plus, Halloween.
WANT. I used to think I didn't mind the heat that much, but damn, I am sick of it now. Want fall. And rain, and highs in the 50s, and freshly-picked apples.
And a nap.
Kathy A - Jul 26, 2011 9:32:16 am PDT #18113 of 30001
We're very stretchy. - Connie Neil
Want fall. And rain, and highs in the 50s, and freshly-picked apples.
Except for the rain, ITA. We've had enough rain here in the past four days to last us the rest of the year, I think.
Fall is definitely my favorite time of year. Mid-50s, just cold enough for a jean jacket, the crunch of fallen leaves underfoot, overcast with a slight breeze--just perfect.
le nubian - Jul 26, 2011 9:36:05 am PDT #18114 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
After ita's post, I deleted Google+ access on one of my gmail accounts. I had 2 accts with Google+ (one was my pseudo account, one is my real name), I deleted + from the pseud.
I do not need any problems with that pseud account which is my primary email address for all services when I don't want to give out my real addy. I have bills in there, all kinds of stuff that I would not want to go poof! in the night.
I'll give it a day, but I might go ahead and delete + on my real name acct because I can ill afford bullshit there.