Google Buzz launched yesterday, and I’m not too sure what to make of it at this point.

Social media can get pretty cluttered. You have friends in various social networks, and sometimes you only sign up for a service to follow a few specific people you can’t follow anywhere else. Messy! Google Buzz is supposed to help with that.

So far, I’m seeing some things I like, and some things that I’m pretty iffy about.
I do like the fact that it’s built right into Gmail. I always have Gmail open for one reason or another, so it’s one less program or browser app I have to run.

At the moment, though, it seems weird. Most of the things my friends have posted are things I have already read elsewhere. For example, a few of my friends have added their Twitter feeds. Well, since they are my friends, I already followed them on Twitter (my app of choice is TweetDeck at home and TwitterFox (now Echofon, but I don’t like the new versions so I use an old one) elsewhere), so I’m getting all that info twice. I love ‘em, but I don’t really need to see that twice, ya know?

I’m not too keen when it automatically posts things when you add a new service. Mine auto-posted my latest Flickr photo, which is all well and good, but I haven’t updated my Flickr account since January 18th, so that information is kinda outdated now.

I’ll give it a chance and see what happens. I’m hoping it will grow up into a way to streamline my social media intake; to declutter it and keep it neat and tidy all in one place.

What do you think of it so far? Will it help you to declutter the loads of social media information you receive daily, or is it just yet another way to do the same ol’ thing?

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