After really looking at my gmail account I realized that it has a link on the left hand side that says Buzz with a colorful symbol next to it. Never really paying attention to what that meant I never knew how cool this link really was. My friend recently just told me about GoogleBuzz. You just click that link and quickly make a profile and just like twitter and facebook you are able to share comments with your friends. You can tell anyone what you are doing at the time or for a visual effect you can even upload photos and videos. What is also great is that there are privacy settings. You could make your personal profile public to the web or private to your small group of followers. The buzz only works if you get all your friends involved so definitely tell them about it because it seems pretty interesting. The more I try to figure out what it actually is the more it resembles a combination of facebook and twitter. The whole idea of following people and posting comments but having the ability to add larger amounts of text without abbreviations lets us have the best of both worlds. Honestly I am not really sure what else this has to offer I am currently trying to figure out how to actually follow someone but i provided a youtube video that helps explain more benefits of the buzz.
Rian,
ReplyDeleteSo what do you make of Google Buzz? I checked it out about a year ago and determined that it's the same as Fb and Twitter. So here's my question--with all these social network platforms, which one fo we choose to use and why? Is there any point to using multiple ones? I notice even Yahoo has a platform like this now as well. This prompts me to wonder if all email providers are going to feel the need to have tools of this nature?
To be honest, I am not really sure what to make of this application. I personally have a Facebook and a twitter and I am currently in the process of creating a buzz profile. I am not sure if people feel the same way I feel along the lines that there is no harm in having all three social network platforms even if they function similarly. I also think that more email providers are going to want to have this application option because I think the new media industry is extremely competitive. If one email provider has something that starts to become more interactive and popular I think the other email providers will follow. Maybe not necessarily create a buzz on their page but something that has a similar or updated concept. Overall I am not sure if there is a point of having all of these different social networks since the results are all the same but I personally have all three and I am sure there are people who choose to participate in more than one social network platform as well. What do you guys think is the reason behind this? Also do you think the buzz really causes more interactivity for gmail or do people tend to not notice this application?
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