5 Reasons Why Gmail Buzz Privacy Isn't All That Bad

My major problem with Buzz is that I did not want to be automatically signed up as someone's follower without my consent. It automatically made me a follower of people that I have no real connection with at all (business contacts, one person that I had emailed recently because I was selling something, etc.) By making me their follower, this tells those people that Google thinks I think of them as one of my closest friends.