<story><title>The Problem With Google Buzz Is That It Solves Google’s Problem At Your Expense</title><url>http://mixergy.com/the-problem-with-google-buzz-is-that-it-solves-googles-problem-at-your-expense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>caryme</author><text>To me, possibly the single best thing about Twitter is that it is missable and ignorable.  If ignore my RSS reader for a while and come back, I&apos;m overwhelmed by the number of unread posts and feel the need to catch up.&lt;p&gt;At Twitter (and Facebook for that matter) on the other hand, I can just pick up at the top of the stream.  No bold number is telling me &quot;you haven&apos;t read this!&quot; I can simply ignore the tweets I missed, and pick up at the present.&lt;p&gt;Google adding this bold unread buzz number is already making me feel like I can get behind.  And this right next to my inbox unread email count - something that I actually do need to keep in check.&lt;p&gt;I don&apos;t need social media adding unread anxiety.</text></comment>
<story><title>The Problem With Google Buzz Is That It Solves Google’s Problem At Your Expense</title><url>http://mixergy.com/the-problem-with-google-buzz-is-that-it-solves-googles-problem-at-your-expense/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>rauljara</author><text>I think one of the reasons Buzz has garnered so much back lash is because it really feels like this sudden intrusion.  The other social sites bring at least as much noise, but you have to go and sign up for them.  Once you are signed up for them, you have to grow your network over time, at a pace you can control.  With Buzz, all you have to do is click &quot;Okay&quot; (which a lot of people do without even realizing), and suddenly you are hit with dozens of connections, and a lot of noise you had no idea you were asking for by clicking &quot;okay&quot;.  A lot of people who are annoyed now might have been fine with it if they had entered into it in a more organic fashion.  I think it does promise to be a really convenient service.  But the sheer suddenness and ubiquitousness of it almost guarantees a backlash.</text></comment>