Google Getting Bad Social Media Buzz?

Now that the Best/Worst Social Media Practices assignments are all done for our class, it was interesting that today, Google, the company that my technology group used as our best practices company, is getting a lot of hatred for something they do every year and actually all the time around holidays or other special days in history.

Today, for Easter Sunday, Google featured American farm worker, labor leader and civil rights activist, Cesar Chavez on it's homepage. This act, something they again do all the time, riled up Christians on social media sites.

Anti-Google tweets began appearing, bashing Google for using Chaves instead of Jesus Christ on such a day.

The reason Google chose Chaves was because it would have been his 86th birthday.

One tweet protestor mentioned how he was going to start using Bing from now on, Google's biggest competitor. It is interesting to note, though, that Bing did not feature Jesus Christ either. Instead, there were brightly colored easter eggs.

I thought this was rather interesting because it appeared that Google, in my eyes, was just trying to be neutral, and offend no one person or religion by choosing a historical figure like Cesar Chaves.

I guess you just can't please everyone.