I enjoy being social in general, in grade school I often was considered the “social butterfly”, much to the bane of my teachers existence. Being a social butterfly is what makes me, well, me.
So I found it kind of interesting that after a few days of trying out Buzz, I decided to shut it off.
You see, I live in Gmail, so when I first caught wind that Google was going to make Gmail a bit more social, I was pumped. Finally, two of the worlds I love living in (well, one of those worlds have been put on hold) are going to collide in a massive amount of awesome that will give the tech world a collective orgasm.
Turns out I was wrong! (OH SNAP! Did a former tech blogger admit he was wrong?)
But I am not against it because of that whole privacy schpeal that makes Google evil as Dave Winer suggests. I could give a flying fuck about my privacy. In my opinion, once you click on your preferred browser (GO CHROME!) you have automatically given up your right to privacy. Now, I know this is an extremist view on the matter and I can think of plenty of counter arguments to my measly thoughts on privacy, but that is my honest to god opinion on the matter.
So no, privacy is a non issue, its the hardcore lack of innovation that Google has brought to Buzz that bothers me.
There is absolutely nothing new that Buzz brings to me that Twitter or FriendFeed have already brought to me. Hell, they both do their respective jobs better than Buzz, and Google expects to compete with… this?
Come on Google, you dudes and gals are supposed to be like… f-ing geniuses. MIT and Stanford shit up in here, best of the best in their respective engineering fields.
Or is that the problem?
I mean, good lord, we all know Google is full of geniuses, but are they the social kind of geniuses? Does their really exist a “social” genius? I have already meet a few very smart people in Boston, turns out they can talk a lot about theories, math problems and how genius they really are, but try to carry a conversation with them for more ten minutes about what they plan to do on the weekend, or what girls they are interested in.
Blank stares.
So Google, you sucked Buzz, I shut it off and you need to hire some social geniuses.
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I Turned Off Google Buzz Cause It BLOWZ
Hey, fun fact about me, I LOVE social services.
I enjoy being social in general, in grade school I often was considered the “social butterfly”, much to the bane of my teachers existence. Being a social butterfly is what makes me, well, me.
So I found it kind of interesting that after a few days of trying out Buzz, I decided to shut it off.
You see, I live in Gmail, so when I first caught wind that Google was going to make Gmail a bit more social, I was pumped. Finally, two of the worlds I love living in (well, one of those worlds have been put on hold) are going to collide in a massive amount of awesome that will give the tech world a collective orgasm.
Turns out I was wrong! (OH SNAP! Did a former tech blogger admit he was wrong?)
But I am not against it because of that whole privacy schpeal that makes Google evil as Dave Winer suggests. I could give a flying fuck about my privacy. In my opinion, once you click on your preferred browser (GO CHROME!) you have automatically given up your right to privacy. Now, I know this is an extremist view on the matter and I can think of plenty of counter arguments to my measly thoughts on privacy, but that is my honest to god opinion on the matter.
So no, privacy is a non issue, its the hardcore lack of innovation that Google has brought to Buzz that bothers me.
There is absolutely nothing new that Buzz brings to me that Twitter or FriendFeed have already brought to me. Hell, they both do their respective jobs better than Buzz, and Google expects to compete with… this?
Come on Google, you dudes and gals are supposed to be like… f-ing geniuses. MIT and Stanford shit up in here, best of the best in their respective engineering fields.
Or is that the problem?
I mean, good lord, we all know Google is full of geniuses, but are they the social kind of geniuses? Does their really exist a “social” genius? I have already meet a few very smart people in Boston, turns out they can talk a lot about theories, math problems and how genius they really are, but try to carry a conversation with them for more ten minutes about what they plan to do on the weekend, or what girls they are interested in.
Blank stares.
So Google, you sucked Buzz, I shut it off and you need to hire some social geniuses.
That is all.
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