I hate Google right now
Google Reader is gone and I’m so mad I could spit. Some idiot at the advertising giant looked at the lovely Google Reader and said “people like this but they don’t like Google+. You know what would be a smart thing to do? If we forced the users of our popular service to move to our unpopular one.”So that’s bad enough. Then they decided that removing the social part might not drive everyone away so they just put tons of useless white space between every single element on the god damned page. Now it looks like Playskool designed it. “HAY GUYS APPLE IS MINIMAL. US DO THAT TOO.”
OK fine, design is personal. Maybe some near-sighted people and fat-fingered children like it but here’s The Thing: I don’t want to use fucking Google+. That’s why I wasn’t using it before today. I loved sharing with Google Reader and reading what my friends shared. I don’t want to start a new social media profile that eventually fills up with people I just met once, parents’ friends, and just barely connected work people that I can’t swear around (not you, my work people friends — I don’t mean you). I’m also not going to be strong-armed into using their Facebook knockoff or the hideous new Reader design. You blew it, jerks. I’m going to share and read my stuff elsewhere and use Google less, not more. I’m not sure where, but watch this space. Meanwhile, speaking of space, here’s my message to Google, in the new design that they like so much:
SCREW YOU , CHANGE IT BACK
