Comments on: Google Reader is Evolving into a Twitter/Facebook Service

By: Rowan Evenstar

Rowan Evenstar — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 11:23:23 +0000

I like all the new features. I dont use the Google Reader interface, but i use Feedly, and i love beign able to ‘Like’ articles and see who else i follow has liked them. I hate going to a really simple site and discovering i can do anything with the information. If i share an article or like it, it then goes to FriendFeed, and then it goes out to Twitter, and then to Facebook, one simple click on an article im interested in and it is delivered to all the other outlets.

I dont want to simply read an article, i want to be able to spread it around and encourage others to see it and begin discussions.

So to me google reader is simple, it does what i want in a nice way. If it didnt have the funcitonality it does, it be more complicated for me.

By: Maria

Maria — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 00:16:39 +0000

The Like feature is a distraction for me. Google: give us an option to muzzle!

By: Jim Gaudet

Jim Gaudet — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 18:01:23 +0000

And I just noticed the Like button next to the Share…

By: Manish Jain

Manish Jain — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:09:33 +0000

This from my view is taking the essence of a simple reader which isn’t wise. There are loads of other sites all the articles that are available as feeds here are already shared. Adding social network would cluster it too much and people would eventually lose interest in reading , for which it actually is meant. They should have rather kept it simple.

By: Dusty Trice

Dusty Trice — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 15:39:55 +0000

I hope they give people an option to disable the Google Reader ‘like’ feature soon. It’s terrible and in the way. Google reader isn’t Facebook. It’s a newsreader.