Google Buzz – Social Media takeover…again

Richard Askew — Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:55:56 +0000

You may have seen the ‘buzz’ (sorry, I purposefully didn’t do it in the title) about the new Social Networking tool released by Google. It is called Buzz (not to be confused with Yahoo Buzz) and it is integrated into Google Mail accounts. Basically it allows you to share things you like and update friends with your status. View the video below to get a full idea of what it does, but it does include some nice little features. For example if you sign up it automatically adds people from your address book as followers and if you share a site it pulls images and video from it, so a good-looking post can easily and quickly be constructed that can be shared with your friends.

Before I get into the few points I would like to make I have a confession to make. Despite being a web-developer who likes playing with new technologies, I haven’t exactly taken to Social Networking, Facebook in particular. Even with this in mind I cannot see why anyone would stop using Facebook, Twitter or even services like StumbleUpon to use it.

It shows status updates but so do Twitter and Facebook. You can share links, but loads of other sites do that, it ties into Gmail but I don’t want it to (I haven’t got an account) and perhaps most annoying of all, the sharing of sites seems to revolve around images and video. Now I’m going to let you into a little secret, and I will whisper it, some people actually like to read and learn on the Internet.

With all this in mind I just think, above all else, they are just too late. They have tried and failed before with Orkut so why will this work? If anyone wants to leave a comment feel-free but why not just send me a Wave about it?

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Google Buzz – Social Media takeover…again