Google Buzz, the tool that simply doesn’t work

Google Buzz

Google has released Buzz recently and, like everything that gets out of Google’s labs, it got a lot of, exactly, buzz. In my opinion they’ve screwed it big time with it, being a service that has absolutely no usability and it seems like it got a lot of people mad by integrating it with Gmail.

Google Buzz has almost to no features, except you can “like” and comment to the links shared by the ones you follow, but it’s hard to track and also really cluttered. Of course it can’t be perfect right from the beginning, but this one is not even useful and I wonder if it does bring any traffic to the links shared. I don’t know that because I tested only a bit, as I can’t stand for it.

Other social media and social networking websites let you understand what are them about and offer you some features to help you use them, but Google Buzz does exactly the opposite. It’s just a Gmail page where you can see your followers, the one you follow and a timeline of shared links. Also I started to receive some emails from Google Buzz and I’m glad I didn’t comment to many stories because I believe that’s the reason for the emails. Need I say it’s really frustrating to receive an email for every comment posted after mine on the story ? I guess not.

If I wouldn’t have read so many negative comments about it, I thought it was just me, but it seems like barely nobody embraces Google’s new service.

Please let me know if you disagree and let me know why is that, because I really don’t understand why people use it. Anyway I hope it will improve and will try to use it a few more days, maybe I change my mind. If you’re into it you could follow me, though I might not post too much.

Tags: Google, Google Buzz