Is Google Reader sharing too much information - giving away the store, so to speak?

Yes.

According to a post in TechCrunch today:

"…The problem is that sharing is an all-or-nothing proposition. You either share posts with all of your contacts (who also use Google Reader) or with nobody. In other words, sharing is the same as making your selections public. There is no way to pick and choose with whom exactly you want to share particular posts or feeds. Without giving consumers that granular control, the sharing feature is in danger of becoming a spamming feature. Just because I’ve sent you an e-mail in the past does not make us friends, and it certainly does not mean that you want to keep track of every random blog post I decide to share.  "

 

I'm pretty clear that what I'm sharing is information that I found interesting - but look what someone else, highly placed, choose to share?

What's more embarrassing is this person, well known in the Web Analytics field, didn't share anything else - just those three items.

Here's proof that Google Reader is providing too much information with no granular control of who sees it.