{"id":309667,"date":"2010-02-11T21:19:54","date_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"Gizmodo-5470090"},"modified":"2010-02-11T21:19:54","modified_gmt":"2010-02-12T02:19:54","slug":"google-buzz-turns-less-creepy-after-some-improvements-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/309667","title":{"rendered":"Google Buzz Turns Less Creepy After Some Improvements [Google]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"lytebox\" href=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/googlebuzz.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cache.gawkerassets.com\/assets\/images\/4\/2010\/02\/500x_googlebuzz.jpg\" class=\"left image500\" width=\"500\" \/><\/a>It feels like all of the nine million <a class=\"autolink\" title=\"Click here to read more posts tagged #googlebuzz\" href=\"http:\/\/gizmodo.com\/tag\/googlebuzz\/\">Google Buzz<\/a> posts and comments flooded your inbox this week. And as if that wasn&#8217;t enough, suddenly that creepy ex started &#8220;following&#8221; you. Google has a fix for one of those issues.<\/p>\n<p>As a result of user feedback, Google has made these little changes to turn Buzz into something slightly less creepy without having to <a href=\"http:\/\/lifehacker.com\/5469388\/stop-google-buzz-from-showing-the-world-your-contacts\">resort to elaborate workarounds<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More visible option to not show followers\/people you follow on your public profile<\/li>\n<li>Ability to block anyone who starts following you<\/li>\n<li>More clarity on which of your followers\/people you follow can appear on your public profile<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now if only they could make the whole thing less annoying. [<a href=\"http:\/\/gmailblog.blogspot.com\/2010\/02\/millions-of-buzz-users-and-improvements.html\">Gmail Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p><br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=ff2271c0027f5c80069e10fb794af2d7&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=ff2271c0027f5c80069e10fb794af2d7&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/a.rfihub.com\/eus.gif?eui=2226\"\/><\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=6f8e-Z3CFgg:ohXAIv39aJw:H0mrP-F8Qgo\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=H0mrP-F8Qgo\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=6f8e-Z3CFgg:ohXAIv39aJw:yIl2AUoC8zA\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?d=yIl2AUoC8zA\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=6f8e-Z3CFgg:ohXAIv39aJw:D7DqB2pKExk\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=6f8e-Z3CFgg:ohXAIv39aJw:D7DqB2pKExk\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.gawker.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?a=6f8e-Z3CFgg:ohXAIv39aJw:V_sGLiPBpWU\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~ff\/gizmodo\/full?i=6f8e-Z3CFgg:ohXAIv39aJw:V_sGLiPBpWU\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/gizmodo\/full\/~4\/6f8e-Z3CFgg\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It feels like all of the nine million Google Buzz posts and comments flooded your inbox this week. And as if that wasn&#8217;t enough, suddenly that creepy ex started &#8220;following&#8221; you. Google has a fix for one of those issues. As a result of user feedback, Google has made these little changes to turn Buzz [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-309667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}