I can make it so my profile won't display my full name (which is a lie, but that's not the point), but it won't let me comment on or even "like" other buzz posts unless I enable this. I think it wants me to enable my follow and followed lists, which, also, isn't a big problem, but pisses me off.
I clicked the link, "why do I have to enable my profile" or whatever (even though I can't disable it completely, as I can my blogger profile), but it didn't quite explain why this was essential to my use of Buzz. It explained how awesome it will be, and how other people can find me, and how groups of friends can find each other more easily. Well, maybe I don't want full functionality. I certainly don't in Facebook, and they've accommodated me in that.
Kinda.
I'm probably just being immature, but this pisses me off. I'll set up and play around with whatever thing you think will be awesome, but this coming a bit too deep into what I perceive to be my personal space--gmail and blogger. My Facebook and Twitter are both connected to my old Hotmail email account, which was 3000 unread emails because I've let it go to spam.
Buzz feels like Wave's seventeen year-old sister is rubbing up against me at a mutual friend's wedding. She's got a small acne problem, but her boobs are nice enough to ignore that, if she wasn't an underaged girl rubbing up against me in a public place.
Tell me how it turns out.
Google Wave and Google Buzz seem to be a we bit late in the race. Potentially great social networking tools they may be but it makes me feel as though I'm watching Lil Mac vs. Mike Tyson in Nintendo's Punch-out.
ReplyDeleteSure they have a chance at claiming the championship but there are still people clinging to their MySpace for fucks sake. Twitter was a fluke all its own for it took a great and widely used portion of facebook and flew. I personally do not like twitter for multiple reasons, primarily it's the " OMG im tottaly gonna Tweet that, lawl" comments you hear from douche bags and their douchy lovers. Maybe I was ruined by a few people, but so help me , I will not submit to 140 some odd characters.
I think Facebook took over Myspace because of the friend feed and because it was a relatively elegant, not-noisy alternative. Now the friend feed is getting increasingly buggy, and the ap shit is making it increasingly noisy. (I told the thing to ignore *all* Farmville bullshit, but for some reason I got "Farmville Valentine" invites. Fuck you.)
ReplyDeleteTwitter... I wouldn't even call it social networking. It is more of a stream of consciousness transmitter, and it works better for bouncing news and cool internet shit around than friend updates. It is more of a customizable AP Wire.