Comments | zarniwhooper: Google Buzz: it's a knock at Facebook

zarniwhooper

Google Buzz: it's a knock at Facebook

Feb 12, 2010 08:33

Google's new social networking site Buzz launched last night and bills itself as the best way to "share interesting stuff". On Google's official blog they claim that Buzz will be a way of "organizing the social information on the web" and "finding relevance in the noise".

So is this a generous contribution to information flow and "sharing" or is ( Read more... )

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asta77 February 12 2010, 17:57:06 UTC

I had a Buzz pop up appear the other day, I clicked no or whatever I needed to click to make it go away, then saw the Buzz icon amongst my Gmail folders...and had no clue what it was. Did they advertise before they launched it? I at least had a clue what Bing was before it appeared. I can barely handle email, Twitter and LJ. I don't need more networking!

zarniwhooper February 18 2010, 21:33:00 UTC

You know, I'm not sure how much buzz Buzz got before its launch; but I'll say that it has gotten plenty since. Most of it bad ( ... )

asta77 February 23 2010, 02:48:43 UTC

Now people tweet their bowel movements. And the line will only keep moving.

How much further can it move??? Wait. I don't want to know. ;)

For those of us not so knowledgeable with all the tech, it's the email privacy that sent up the red flags and triggered the outrage. Most people online try very hard to keep their email private. Partly to avoid spammers; mostly out of fears of accounts being hacked. And as a friend of mine pointed out, her Gmail account is used for friends, family and also the occasional business contact - who she has no desire to social network with.