It's better for some. A group of friends and I are messing with it as it seems a more organic way to run a conversation, but if all you need is email, yeah.
Couple that with the shiny-happy-your-best-friend-the-metrosexual front end of their operation and the whole thing's a bit like being at your eighth birthday party and getting felt up by a clown.
Here's the thing: let's suppose that the people who run Google are plaster saints. Best of intentions. Not a Machiavellian bone in their body.
That is completely irrelevant.
The point is that they're building a company whose mission statement is "We want all your info." And if they're saints, that's fine. That's fine. But they won't be around forever. So what they're doing is building a structure into which flows, and is housed, an enormous portion of people's private information. And there it will stay. And these people will pass, and new people will come along. And they will run the company. And we have no sodding idea who they might be.
There's a reason why it's illegal to drive to a service station, fill twelve jerry cans with gasoline and then just toss them into your back seat and drive off. It's potentially deadly concentrating that much explosive in one place and just leaving it there.
The corporate world is evolving faster than government.
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Date: 2009-12-05 03:29 am (UTC)They're so rare!
(It's so.... useless).
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Date: 2009-12-05 03:30 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 03:33 am (UTC)Makes sense. Makes it sound like one of those 1980s partylines though. :)
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Date: 2009-12-05 03:41 am (UTC)I gotta say, Google's infovore tendencies gives me the fucking heebies though.
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Date: 2009-12-05 03:42 am (UTC)You and me both.
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Date: 2009-12-05 03:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 03:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 03:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 03:52 am (UTC)That is completely irrelevant.
The point is that they're building a company whose mission statement is "We want all your info." And if they're saints, that's fine. That's fine. But they won't be around forever. So what they're doing is building a structure into which flows, and is housed, an enormous portion of people's private information. And there it will stay. And these people will pass, and new people will come along. And they will run the company. And we have no sodding idea who they might be.
There's a reason why it's illegal to drive to a service station, fill twelve jerry cans with gasoline and then just toss them into your back seat and drive off. It's potentially deadly concentrating that much explosive in one place and just leaving it there.
The corporate world is evolving faster than government.
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Date: 2009-12-05 04:13 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 04:11 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 04:18 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-05 04:26 am (UTC)no subject
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