Well, if you haven’t noticed, Google has decided to throw its hat in the Social Networking ring by introducing Buzz by Google. If you have a GMail account you should now have it active and you should check it out.
I’ve connected all my other accounts that are available to integrate with Google Buzz and I have mixed feelings. I view this more as “closed” social networking unlike Twitter which I would call an “open” approach to Social Networking.
Right now on Twitter I interact with people all over the world that I’ve never met in person. I talk to pastors that I’ve never met but read their books, I talk to news personnel and I even have used Twitter to contact Microsoft directly and got results! I don’t have ANY of these people and companies GMail information (if they even have a Google account) and thus would never be able to reach them without Twitter.
Buzz might be cool for the more close circle of your friends but then again wasn’t Wave supposed to be some way to share media in a more “communal” way and I think we can all see how that went over (Does anyone even still use their Wave account? I don’t…).
What do you think about Google Buzz? Have you checked it out yet? If not, here is the link - http://buzz.google.com.
Night all,
- JM
