I am very close to swearing off Google.
Saturday I went to a nice record store and had a good time. so 10 minutes ago I thought
" hey i will give them a review to get more people over there"

but google now requires you to join the "+" cult to even do a store review
I would file a complaint but no such option exists, imagine that.

I know you are all thinking I am crazy for getting upset and not just joining the heard.
but i refuse to participate in this nonsense.... there was nothing wrong with just a plain search engine, do i really need to join the club?
I see a pattern here that I do not like.
nest step is Google insurance, banks and hospitals.

I guess I am just becoming one grumpy old man a bit sooner than usual

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Kinda reminded of this SBDude
The Prisoner (1967–1968)
TV Series - 50 min - Action | Drama | Mystery
Storyline
"The Prisoner" is a unique piece of television. It addresses issues such as personal identity and freedom, democracy, education, scientific progress, art and technology, while still remaining an entertaining drama series. Over seventeen episodes we witness a war of attrition between the faceless forces behind 'The Village' (a Kafkaesque community somewhere between Butlins and Alcatraz) and its most strong willed inmate, No. 6. who struggles ceaselessly to assert his individuality while plotting to escape from his captors.

There's no escape No. 6

you are missing 8 more numbers

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It's all just a plan to track your every movement via logging in to this and logging into that. Social media this facebook that.

It's Big Brother watching all the time. What with that and CCTV everywhere you'll soon be unable to go to the bathroom without someone tracking you.

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Luck won't do it and ignorance can't

George Van Eps.

Got to agree with you about google, they are (in English slang) SHITE!!
They are a "don't care what the heck you think or you want " company (Just like facebook), infested with $@! licking employees who have to come up with a "new" idea every so often, to verify keeping their jobs
I had windows 7 installed, downloaded firefox and immediateley wiped internet explorer off the machine
If you want to change something in IE, you google the solution to your problem, and after 3 days of trying, give up and have it their way
In Firefox you do the same, and they say "OK , you want that?, here is something to do exactly what you want

BTW, the Prisoner was actually filmed in an architect made village in Wales called Portmerion and we stayed 5 years ago, in the Aegean Village on the Greek island of Kos , which was a duplicate of Portmerion
(the architect must have been a fan)

"Be seeing you",was the catchphrase,and here are the opening credits, it starred Patrick Magoohan as a secret service agent who got fed up with the way his bosses ran the show and wanted out, so the next thing, he was gassed in his flat and woke up in "The village", where pschycological tricks were used on him to try and find out if he would ever divulge any top secret things he knew
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRPDO63rI1E

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Ted

"All right, guys, uh, listen. This is a blues riff in "B", watch me for the changes, and try and keep up, okay?"

whats funny to me is we are all being effortlessly duped into it, with these facetweet things it makes it seem "COOL". and the whole time someone is doing this behind your back




no one has to work for the information anymore, people just post their activities willingly every 10 minutes

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Not Google, but Hotmail is annoying me lately. Everytime I go to check my email, it asks me to enter in a bunch of info, like my phone number, in case I forget my password. I enter nothing and hit save, but it keeps asking me. ARGHH!

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they need your number so they can sell it to telemarketing company's

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Yep I'm just off to spend a penny.........and talking of which a Jo Brand gag on the telly the other night " why are you not allowed to take a pee in the swimming pool, it's rediculous, have you ever tried not peeing while taking a dump it's physically impossible"

It's time for a new upstart search engine to rise up and streamline and speed up our net searches again. Google insists on continually hanging more and more crap all over the place. I also get irritated when Google periodically logs me out so I have to log back in just so it can request my cel number (among other personal things) for my gmail profile. I always do the same thing. I log in and then I bypass all the inquiries and go straight to my inbox.

You're not getting me to enter my info, Google, there's to much of my info out there already.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

+1

Don't forget the aerial drones. DHS will have a field day with those once they're deployed. Even a tin foil hat won't hide you.



Arjay

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"Here's why reliability is job one: A great sounding amp that breaks down goes from being a favorite piece of gear to a useless piece of crap in less time than it takes to read this sentence." -- BRUCE ZINKY

Your cell phone is the worst of it all. They can track you down anytime they want. And the scary thing is people are ok with this.