Youth as Google’s goal for the account safety crusade

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» 07 April 2010

Youth as Google’s goal for the account safety crusade

Management of Buzz account privacy will now be hassle-free with the latest video presentation from Google that contains safety instructions for their users. This video presentation is aimed at the young online users, as said by the web giant.

The Safety Channel is a YouTube feed that is designed in such a way that it can help in heightening the awareness of the teen web users with regards to keeping a secured online surfing and this is the location of the newly-uploaded video created by Google.

Variety of instructions may help fight online hazards

Google’s video is actually very useful since it offers quite a number of valuable safety guidelines. Included in the video are the following: proper management of confidential data and also the control over who can see their account information in the social networking application, Buzz.

New product that needs to be studied

According to a blog post written by Scott Rubin, the Google public policy manager, the main purpose of Google Buzz is actually to connect the online users especially the young ones. In this application, the individuals may begin discussing random things such as one’s interests.

Even though it had been a long time since Buzz was introduced to the online community, there are people out there who still need clarifications regarding the method of sharing and other functions found on the said Google application.

The web giant also indicated the age requirement so that one can create an account in Buzz. According to Google, the user must be 13 years old and above in order to complete the registration at Buzz.

Security of applications are always questioned

It is a fact that web users, nowadays, are protesting about online privacy. Thus, Google creates the video presentation as an answer to the longstanding vulnerability of the privacy settings in its latest application, Buzz.

The web giant decided to work hand-in-hand with their online users in order to deal with the issues regarding the security in Google’s new service. One of the major concerns of the users in the Buzz was the auto-follow function or its illegal linkage with the Gmail accounts.

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