Almost a week ago Google released Buzz. It’s launch was met with a huge amount of criticism over Google taking our private contacts in Gmail and exposing them and their email addresses to the world. Google has sense implemented some privacy features and changed the auto follow to a suggestion system. They have also said that their implementation needed more beta testing. In my last article I mentioned I would be switching away from Gmail due to Buzz and I still am. I’m a Mac an iPhone user. I have 2 Macs at home and I’ve learned how wonderful the Mobile Me service is, especially when it comes to syncing multiple Macs. So my question is are you buzzing?
Even though I am working on changing email addresses which is a lot more difficult than I thought. I have clicked on Buzz to see how many of my contacts are actually using it. From the looks of it not many. Right now there are two people I know that use it. I am not following them but they are following me and have set up profiles most of my other contacts still have not set up profiles. From talking to my friends none of them are interested in using it. Why you ask? They all say the same thing. They have Facebook some use Myspace as well, and some use Twitter. They have no interest in posting the same thing so many times. I think we are hitting a social network overload. It’s beginning to feel like work to keep them all up to date.
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