Recently Gmail unveiled it’s second attempt at the social networking. What’s this? Second attempt? Don’t be surprised if you had not heard of the first, unless you’re from Brazil. Yes boys and girls much the same way God and Darwin decided the dodo was just not to be, so too the American people said about Orkut. That just sounds like an extinct animal now doesn’t it? Upon initial inspection you may begin to the think that Google Buzz is a complete waste of server space. You would, indeed, be correct.

So, I opened my Gmail inbox the other day to a bunch of “HOLY CRAP! Another button to play with!” Even if the button does kind of look like the beachball/pinwheel associated with my Mac thinking or as my pc counterparts might call the hourglass. Fortunately thinking of my mac thinking is something that doesn’t necessarily bother me because I rarely see the beach ball. Unless, of course, I have my 50 browser windows of porn opened up, with Pandora,  Hulu, Final Cut, Garage Band, and Netflix . And that’s only on my primary screen. I won’t get into what is streaming on my auxiliary screen. Whereas for those of you with PC’s, seeing an hourglass might make you wince in pain for all the agonizing times you have patiently waited for that ancient time keeping vessel to turn, only to turn again and again. Leaving you with no choice but to try clicking again only adding to the backlog of requests your computer now has to process in an attempt to catch up. I think you can see where I’m coming from.

So, yeah. HOLY CRAP! I race my mouse in a straight line over to the little Buzz bubble quicker than a Tron racer running from a 8-bit tank and bam! Nothing. Well, nothing to buzz about. (See what I did there?) Currently I’m following  four people on buzz that I’m  friends with on Facebook. Nearly a week later all my Buzz seems to be doing is sucking in twitter feeds. Emphases on “sucking”.

/BP