Your Loving Overlords.

I love Disney. 

I am part of my college's Disney History Club.

I can count the number of Disney movies I haven't seen on one hand (Well... almost.)

I have dressed up as Disney Characters more often than any other characters. 

In case you hadn't noticed, this is a disclaimer.

What are some of your favorite movies?

Star Wars?....yes. Owned by Disney. October 2012

Muppets?....... Bought in 2004

Pixar?.... Disney bought them in 2006

Marvel?.... Disney bought the distribution rights in December 2009.

 

We all love Disney movies, Disney parks, and the whole Disney experience. But that doesn't mean that we should be ok with them taking over the entire industry. 

 

I love Google.

Every year on it's birthday, I write a long ode to my "best friend" and post it on my Facebook page.

The first thing that I did to my new laptop was install Google Chrome. 

I am writing this on a Google Blog, and my blog is one of the things I am most proud of.

I have never even used Bing or Yahooo or Safari. I go out of my way to use Google.

Heck, it's become a verb. 

Let me Google that for you.

But sometimes Google is scary.

Have you Googled yourself lately? 

It used to be that I would get a newspaper article from Elementary school, the programs from our stake play, and pages of Norwegian nonsense.

That isn't the case anymore.

You Google my name, and you can find out how much I made last summer working as a lifeguard, what my times were on my High School Swim team, things I've posted on Pinterest, my Facebook cover photos and profile pictures, the Prezi's I've made, my Google+ posts (there aren't many...), my Goodreads account, a blog I commented on once, and -although it's buried on the 9th page - my blog.

*My roommate says that this might be because I'm Googling on my laptop. The results might skewed. Which would mean that Google knows who I am, which is just as scary.*

And then there's Google plus. 

I never really signed up for it. It just... happened. 

I have a gmail account. I have a blog. Suddenly, I have a Google+

But it knows what I like, it edits my pictures all by itself, and it suggests friends that I actually know. 

It knows lots of stuff.

Google has amassed quite the empire.

YouTube. Started in February 2005... bought by Google in November 2006.

Picasa. Founded in 2002... bought by Google in 2004

I know here are more but there isn't an actual list, so this is what you get.

Although they don't have the Google logo, Google is the man behind the curtain, pulling all those strings.
Anything you can do... you can do it on Google.
Google takes existing ideas, recreates them, makes them better, and slaps a Google logo on it.
Observe
Google books (Amazon library), Google Scholar (Journals and stuff), Google Play (iTunes), Google Maps (MapQuest), Google Earth (MapQuest again), Google Calander, Google Drive (storage... stuff), Google Docs (Microsoft Word... shared), Google News, Google Wallet, Google Shopping, Google Finance (Wall Street), Google Photos, Google Videos, Google Offers (groupon), Google Translate (a not-so-reliable dictionary), and more and more.

Soon you'll have to go out of your way to use something that Google didn't buy out or create. You may not be able to see a movie that Disney didn't have a hand in. 

And the odd thing is.... You are probably totally ok with that.

They are our loving, benevolent overlords. 

We can only hope they stay that way.