"Ultimately, Ping screws up much in the same way Google Buzz did. It takes years worth of data (or doesn’t!) and uses it to make completely wrong assumptions about me. I think, maybe, it’s a function of being overly ambitious, and certainly overly presumptuous. No, I do not want to be friends with my parole office on Google Buzz. No, I do not want my friends to think that Shakira is one of my favorite artists on iTunes Ping."