Comments on: Social networks need time to grow up – thoughts on Buzz

By: Ask Siirleri

Ask Siirleri — Thu, 18 Nov 2010 08:40:00 +0000

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Chat — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 15:32:11 +0000

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By: Social Network Specialist

Social Network Specialist — Fri, 16 Apr 2010 00:54:01 +0000

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By: Ankit Dangi

Ankit Dangi — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 19:56:53 +0000

Perhaps, the way we may look at it is of undoubtedly a tool that facilitates us to connect better and open up with our closed ones. An interesting nature of buzz is that we talk about things to those whom we want to, and at the same time, let our social circle know about it. A one-to-one communication in the presence of the world we are connected to. Perhaps, the group chats, or a simulated meeting room environment!

The social impact: it might tend to open up people, but at the same time make them perhaps, a bit more cautious on what they want to talk about; sense of responsibility pumped in to human minds towards social behavior.

By: Liz

Liz — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:47:47 +0000

I had similar observations as you regarding the identity of gmail. Buzz allows private and public messages all within the gmail functionality. So it broadens and confuses the private concept of email.

I think if Google doesn’t manage the privacy settings, people may see gmail as less private and maybe less secure as before. Meanwhile, as long as gmail and buzz are on separate tabs in my email, I think people will be able to differentiate the two. But you never know… especially when Buzz sometimes pops into the mail area.

By: Vikrant

Vikrant — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 09:38:54 +0000

I think that Buzz would change the way we network today, How many Social networking sites and related to so many other application of the same platform, Google has many superb product, Reader is one of them, and it lets you share the knowledge that you gain from blogs sites with the world.

Not to mention that the number of BUZZ it received in first two days didn’t come out of nothing, obviously people and using it and liking it.

By: Arpan Kar

Arpan Kar — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 11:11:12 +0000

Somehow, Buzz reminds me of my wishes that google wave be integrated with gmail.
Extremely well written article Rashmi.

By: Pooja

Pooja — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 20:28:13 +0000

Well I personally feel that whatever may be the number (millions) of ‘buzz’ messages that were produced in two days, its more important to understand what those messages said. I am not quite happy with buzz.

By: desundial

desundial — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 08:51:15 +0000

Good piece. While Buzz has certainly generated a lot of Buzz, I’m surprised no one’s raising bigger questions over the “9 million messages in two days” stat. Sure, in those 1st two days everyone who logged into gmail was effectively prompted to buzz something. But how many of those were “Wow, I’m trying buzz!” from people who will then stop buzzing? Social network platforms don’t just face the total users hurdle, but, to stay relevent, the user frequency hurde. Integrating with email and chat would in theory be a way to push more traffic and frequency – maybe why Google built in features such as the confusing line-crossing from private to public chat.

By: codercofounder

codercofounder — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 13:16:34 +0000

Agreed on all counts. I think the problem with Buzz is that it appeared inside an email and chat application, and this change is not an organic one. Frankly, I don’t understand what to make of it and I find it a bit disorienting. Perhaps there were less jarring ways of phasing it in that would make users more comfortable, but now it feels like it’s here at once and everyone is forced to make changes to what they do when they log into Gmail.