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Buzz.. It’s a Social Networking Smörgåsbord

Feb 10, 2010 / Social Media / Trackback

I was happy this morn­ing when I got a Face­book mes­sage that my chat could now be inte­grated with my IM client Pid­gin. Thank you, that is very nice because I love inte­gra­tion, effi­ciency, sim­plic­ity and ease. But then I mean­dered over to Gmail on line (which I nor­mally don’t because I have it con­fig­ured in Out­look) and I saw the curi­ous lit­tle 4 color speech bub­ble.. I just had to click on it and open up Pandora’s Box.

OK, I think I like it a lot. But how many places can one be logged on and use to communicate?

So, I’m here cozy by the fire­place with my lap­top try­ing to fig­ure out what to use. I’m a lit­tle con­fused where I should update sta­tuses and share links from. I could do it from any of the appli­ca­tions I use… how does one choose???????????

I demand lifestream­ing. I want one provider who gives me every­thing. I don’t want to have a gazil­lion sep­a­rate logins with user­names and pass­words and a bunch of clients and web­sites going at the same time. I think the addi­tion of Buzz to the Google line of prod­ucts is prob­a­bly way bet­ter than Face­book and Twit­ter and I think I might even­tu­ally pre­fer to just use it and give them up.

But alas, as far as I can see I’ll never be able to do that because not all of my con­tacts, friends and even my own brother use Gmail. Face­book and Twit­ter have that one thing in com­mon sav­ing both of them. How do I get every­one in the same place?

I want inte­gra­tion and I want it now!

P.S. I think Wave was a decoy, a crude attempt to not give a way the baby with the bath water dur­ing a trial to get feed­back about what peo­ple do not like and what doesn’t work. Buzz is the real roll out. Those Google peo­ple are slick. If I were ever to get a tat­too it might be the Google logo. Just sayin.……


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  • shennee
    Karla- Integration is Key to simplifying one's life. It get's very overwhelming to have a username and password for every place you network and communicate. I personally would appreciate an easier method.
    BTW.. I do not care for google wave either. What a let down Just sayin,,,,,,,,,
    Shennee
  • Well Shennee, you could start by switching to Gmail =)
  • Joan Ginsberg
    I agree with you about getting everyone on the same page. My Facebook friends, many of whom have a difficult time manipulating it, are NEVER going to integrate anything. Do I abandon them?

    Wave was a red herring. And a great gimmick.
  • Oh Joan what a riot, "trying to get everyone on the same page"..... it's kind of like working in corporate HR, isn't it?
  • If you want true lifestreaming Friendfeed is still your best bet. I'm not active on the service but it collects info from just about everywhere and non members can see your activity.
  • Thanks Alex, The reason I don't use services like Friendfeed is precisely what you mentioned, it "collects". I like the fact that my ongoing or instant conversations, microblogging and status updates are via the same application to use as I wish not a bunch of different ones aggregated. I don't care about viewer purposes I want a good user tool.
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