Big Brother wishes me a happy birthday...

[lblanchard]

Does anyone else find this vaguely creepy?

Comments

[chakolate.livejournal.com]

I love google, I really do. I love all the stuff they've made, and most of it doesn't cost me anything. I'm not in the target demographic of most advertisers, and I haven't enough money to interest the others, so ads don't really bother me.

What really DOES bother me is when google intrudes like your example. I don't want it telling me happy birthday, I don't want it showing every search I've ever done on google maps, I don't want anything PERSONAL. Yeah, I know they're collecting the data, but do they have to rub my nose in it? Go ahead, sell my information to advertisers, I don't care. But do it quietly, without getting in my face.

Oh, sorry! This was supposed to be your rant. Oops!

[sueschus.livejournal.com]

And it's an AD - click on the little what is that - a microphone? An ad for flickr. Well, how very thoughtful to think not only of your birthday, but that you might just want to tell your friends to get a flickr account. Too sweet.
On the other hand, Happy Birthday, Laura. No ads attached.

[lblanchard.livejournal.com]

I don't think you're seeing an ad for Flickr so much as the page people who don't have accounts see. My image (I did a screencap of the Google screen and then uploaded to my Flickr account). When you click on the image in my LJ post, it takes you to the original image in my Flickr photostream, and you can navigate using the arrows to see more of my pictures.