So the internet’s all a-twitter (ROTFLOL… get it? GET IT?!) about Buzz, Google’s new social communication system that is much more easy-to-digest than the still nebulous Wave initiative. It rolled out to my Gmail account this morning, and it seems pretty cool. Check the video after the break for a quick walkthrough of the high points.
So what’s my knee-jerk reaction? It looks cool, and the integration among Google services looks great (and I’m sure it will expand to increasingly creepy stalking potential in the coming months), but I’m just not sure I really want another way to update my status and share media.
Twitter is attractive to me simply because it demands so little. I can update my status using whatever program I want, I don’t get farmville/pillow fight invites at 3 a.m., and the API enables it to power pretty much any other service I want… including Buzz. Just like Facebook and other services, I logged into Buzz this morning, linked it to my Twitter account, and probably won’t check Buzz again for weeks.
What do you think? Am I just being a grumpy old man and missing the point of Google’s new baby? Let me know in the comments below.
I’m not much impressed. It’s there, but it doesn’t seem to do anything better or different than Twitter or Facebook. Not very googley, in my opinion.