Youtube video: G-male

I found G-male to be very entertaining while at the same time informative. G-mail is not my main emailing account, so I don’t get to interact with g-mail enough to experience the scenarios laid out in Youtube clip; however, I do use Youtube (owned by Google), Google chrome, and Google’s search engine quite often, so I am familiar with the caching, and advertisements that were satirized in the clip.

Google’s tracking tactics do not bother me because, they do not inconvenience me. In my eyes,  I suffer no immediate negative consequences as a result of their tracking tactics. If, anything, they make my life easier as far a caching the websites I have visited goes. However, after watching the G-male video, I was a little creeped out. Seeing the tracking tactics personified helped to put into perspective how Google could become a problem for some people.

I feel like because Google is a respectable company, I trust them. And because I trust Google, I don’t mind if they use my information to send me advertisements, cupons, or reminders about events I have coming up on my calendar.

I don’t see anything wrong with what Google is doing. They can’t track you, if you don’t supply them with information to track.  The video claims that “Google delved deep into your personal life, “ but how personal is your life if you choose to place such information on the internet? It’s no longer personal, and therefore free game for Google to track and use.