Finally Google is taking the final steps to kill one of its social networks, Google Buzz, on July 17th or sometime after the proposed date. Once Google will shut the service down Buzz users will get a copy of their posts made on the social network, which will be sent to their Google Drive. The social network was embedded in the Google email, but unfortunately a majority of users did not like to have it in their inbox. However, this was not the only reason behind the closure of Buzz, as Google also played a major role in the shut down. The Mountain View-based company actually published the private data of Buzz users, including their contact list without their permission, which resulted in an “$8.5 million civil suit and FTC-imposed independent privacy review board,” according to VentureBeat.
As a result of that the search engine giant decided to close Buzz on October 2011 and now it is just one step away from completely shutting it down. Hopefully, Google have learned a lot from this experience. See the full announcement below for further details:
“Buzz user,
In October 2011 we announced Google Buzz was shutting down. On or after July 17th, 2013, Google will take the last step in the shutdown and will save a copy of your Buzz posts to your Google Drive, a service for storing files online. Google will store two (2) types of files to your Google Drive, and the newly-created files will not count against your storage limits.
The first type of file will be private, only accessible to you, containing a snapshot of the Google Buzz public and private posts you authored.
The second type of file will contain a copy of only your Google Buzz public posts. By default it will be viewable by anyone with the link, and may appear in search results and on your Google Profile (if you’ve linked to your Buzz posts). Note, any existing links to your Google Buzz content will redirect users to this file.
Any comments you made on other users’ posts will only be saved to those users’ files and not to yours. Once the change described in this email is final, only that user will be able to change the sharing settings of those files. This means that if you have commented on another author’s private post, that author could choose to make that post and its comments public. If you would like to avoid that possibility, delete all your Buzz content now.
The new Google Drive files will only contain comments from users that previously enabled Google Buzz, and the files will not contain comments that were deleted prior to moving the data to your Google Drive.
Once the files are created, they will be treated the same as any other Drive file. They are yours to do with as you please. This includes downloading them, updating who can access them, or deleting them.
Before these files are created, you can view the Google Buzz posts you have authored here. If you do not want any of your Buzz posts or comments saved to Google Drive files, you can immediately delete your Google Buzz account and data.
Thank you for using Google Buzz.”
Source: VentureBeat
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