Ahhh – Google Street View. Remember when it first went online and it freaked everybody out and there were all kinds of privacy concerns? That didn’t seem to last very long did it? Now it seems like when I get directions I always check out street view so I know exactly what my destination will look like when I get there, it makes travel a whole lot easier! But there have been some Google street view fiascos for sure.
Today I was thinking of this because I read the post Angry villagers run Google street view out of town, and it cracked me up. In an affluent suburb in England there had been a few burglaries, and when they say the Google street view car in their neighborhood it freaked them out and pissed them off. So they surrounded the car and made it leave!
You can’t blame them really, but it’s funny how many things the google streetview cams have caught by accident just driving through our neighborhoods taking panorama pics of a “day in the life” or ordinary people. You can check some out at Mashable’s Top 15 Google Streetview Sightings, and here’s a Google Streetview Gallery and Street View gallery – with new things being posted all the time.
I guess google street view is just something we’ve gotten used to since it didn’t go away, and it’s not likely to anytime soon!
