Social Media Innersia, I Haz It…
Hard to write this without coming off all FriendFeed Fanboi… but… ‘Because “EVERYONE” else is using it’ wasn’t good enough to make me love Twitter, why should it be for anything else?
When “EVERYONE” = people I care about + lack of access on existing services, then I’ll jump.
With Google Buzz, I might have another look at it later… but when I have the tools to control what I see. I already have a solution with FriendFeed and Facebook (with even a little Twitter).
Google Buzz simply does not fill a need I have.
A simple reality check:
- Outside my great friends on FriendFeed, most other people I associate with have a Facebook account… That’s it.
- In my non-FriendFeed social group, hardly anyone I know has a Twitter account
- In my non-FriendFeed social group, Facebook fulfills all the needs of a large percentage of online activities, from photo, movies all the way to gaming.
- And the kicker… outside of the ones I have sent up personally on behalf of my friends for pure junk mail… NO ONE HAS A GMAIL ACCOUNT.
We’re all still fishing in the bathtub that’s floating in the ocean.
Same-ish (or worse features but better adoption) isn’t enough for me… it just isn’t…
J
And that may indeed be why Google Buzz stalls. I don’t know how many people would ALSO want to use Google Buzz if everyone they know is already wedded to Facebook.
tiffany
11 Feb 10 at 11:54 pm