Google Buzz Tackles Twitter, Facebook

about time. Facebook has become a bloated monster; slow, hard to navigate, and with a news feed dominated by those "friends" you barely know, but who never seem to do anything without updating their status.

say what you want about Google, but they know how to keep things simple, without being simplistic.

my brother in law bought google stock dirt cheap when google first came out. hes father told him it was a wasted investment so he sold it. damn it, we would be rich right now.

I won't join this thing until it surpasses Facebook. I didn't join facebook until my close friends forced me to. I don't see how this is going to be much better. It's just a little more integrated with your email and has a few fancier buttons and whistles.

Google and Facebook are already dinosaurs. It is puzzling, worrying and downright insane for over 500 million zombie bots masquerading as humans are all orgasmic when both of these compromised government spy agencies are mentioned or distribute more intrusive viruses. Anyway for people keeping abreast of latest developments Web 2.0 is already dead. The underground interest is now anchored on wresting back data from these albatrosses and getting the data into the hands of the creators as autonomous entities who control and distribute their info. Without getting being used and abused, ripped off-when the goons trade their data, shopped to the authorities when paid and generally treat their supposed clients as nothing but products to be exploited. People are waking up and are starting to avoid these cesspits because they known that continuation along the 'popular path will lead to ruin, with the government controlling everything. Yes, Google and facebook might as well be the IRS,as they have more info on people. The connection most sheep are failing to make is that Google, CIA, NSA,FBI,POLICE,facebook etc are arms of the government literally decreed by the need to know laws, that forces all these nefarious organisations to build a profile on your for the ever expanding police state. Never ever volunteer information on social networks, instead fill them with Avatars and false info about yourself and code those for only people who really know you to decode.

Dude, its not a conspiracy, and Google.com is not out to get you. Get over it

As for the article, i can wait to try out this new 'facebook'. After seeing some of the crazy stuff google has done, this should be insaine.

It doesn't hurt to be a little wary.

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@tunemoon, whatever you're on stop it, it is making your brains a mush. Whatever Google and facebook are and aren't or are and aren't doing or want to do I very much doubt that you would know about it so keep your conspiracy theories out of a science blog please.

To the point, I don't think that buzz will be any different or better than facebook, they both are irritating buggers that keep sending you more emails than you could care about for stuff that you don't care about, and what little useful information there is in there is mostly lost on spam, just bull, if I don't keep in touch with a person over the phone, or can't care enough to go out for a coffee with him/her then why on earth would I want him/her on my "social network", and why on earth would I ever post anything about my private life on the internet and to boot on a web site that has more security and privacy problems than all of "windows" version combined? Unless of-course he or she can provide me with a better job or social status. This whole "social networking" is just one more big money fashion that will eventually pass.

Google is getting more and more socialized. Maybe It will release a twitter-like function later.

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buzz is allright i guess, its simple and easy, but id rather use facebook or twitter and stay more active on there than on buzz

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