What's buzzing?

I continue to be overwhelmed by social networking. I was finally getting used to updating my facebook status once in a while and learning how to have conversations on twitter, and search engine giant GOOGLE decides to go and launch a new one.
Google Buzz. What does it have that facebook and twitter don't? I don't know yet. Will it really be able to poach loyal social networkers? Hard to say. But what i do know is that if this is where social networking lies in 2010, by 2020 i think everyone is going to have a wall of cameras taping every corner of the world that they can choose to turn on and off at any certain time. We'll just cut out the whole middle man/internet thing and just sit in our houses all day and wait for things to happen then everyone can just start talking at once. Or something.

Last night I went to google "Olympics" to check when the opening ceremony was going to start, and I was startled when not only did my google page MOVE like a twitter feed, but I had gotten no further than "o-l-y" and "Olympic death 2010 video" came up. Poor Nodar Kumaritashvili had just died, and I'm sure it came up because it was recent news and an unfortunate start to the Olympic games, but I want to know who video tapes an event like that and instead of rushing to help rushes to post it on their youtube and twitter for the world to see. Don't get me wrong, I think social networking is great, to a degree. But how far is too far?

I'm not quite sure when all these sites got so huge, but everyone just seems to go with it, myself included. Hell, even the Superbowl ads seem to be directed to social media users. Is it bad that i log on to twitter to get the most up-to-date current event stories? Perhaps. Is it unncessary for people to post what they ate for breakfast on facebook? Well yes, i think so. I mean I ate toast today too, but i don't feel the need to shout it from the rooftops. And i'm sure it's not going to enlighten anyone or spread any kind of (useful) awareness. But who am i to say.

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