In short? I hate it. I don’t use a browser to check my mail, so the fact that I have to log into Gmail to access Buzz is kind of annoying. On top of that I made the mistake of following and responding to a fairly famous freelancer…my inbox got slammed with replies from people I didn’t know and wasn’t following. Now, I’m all for being communicative and in theory this is great – it could really help build a sense of community where as Twitter often feels more isolative – but the fact that I couldn’t shut down or manage the responses to this person (that I really wanted to follow) forced me to unfollow and silence the threads just to be able to clean up my inbox.

I’m hesitant to abandon Buzz entirely, I think there could be a place for it just as there is a place for Twitter and Facebook, but at this point it is really just annoying. As a friend of mine said, “Gmail has flies.”