Love/Hate Relationship

I have a love/hate relationship with Google. What do I love about it? The name for starters. It's fun and funky. I also love the search feature. It's one of the easiest to use. I've used others and I always go back to Google. I just like the way they compile their results.

Now, what do I hate? The invasiveness. I hate their tracking every inquiry. I particularly hate them asking me for a cell phone number just in case I forget my password. Guess what Google? I don't live on my cell phone like some folks do. In fact I generally turn it on only when I have to make an outgoing call. If I lost my password to my bloggy account my cell phone number is probably one of the slowest ways to contact me. I also know why you want that number. You want to be able to sell it to folks who want to send advertising to my cell. I use a pay as you go phone, so I really don't want you to use up all my minutes with your crappy ads, so again, no. You may not have my cell phone number.

I also have a gmail account. I find it clunky and not very user friendly. You really should copy the features of Outlook more closely. I suspect that's one of the most used email configurations out there. It has a ton of features and is very intuitive. On the rare occasions when I do open up my Google mail account I get so frustrated that I just close it without really using it. When you can't find the "send" button on your email then there is something seriously wrong.

I doubt Google much cares about me and my preferences, but it is good to voice these complaints. Doing it on Google Blogger makes it that much more fun!