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Am I the only person in the world who actually likes Google Buzz? Sometimes it seems that way.

That said, I don’t find it all that useful. Why? Because the information I see on it is insanely redundant.

The whole connected sites concept is a great, but most peoples’ lack of Buzz adoption (and adoration) make it so you’re forced to see the same stuff by the same people in multiple places.

Here’s an example: My friend Jennie takes rad photos. She posts them on Flickr, which she’s connected to Buzz. She’s the only person I follow who connects the two sites. So to see my other friends’ photos, I need to go straight to Flickr. Where I also see Jennie’s photos again.

Kind of pointless, eh?

I’m going to go out on a limb and say that the main reason Buzz sucks is because we—all of us—aren’t using it right. By “right” I mean “enough”.

It would be awesome if we could have it as a clearinghouse for all of our social media and blogging activities. And also a place to microblog independently. Basically, one site for all of the shit we’re interested, all of the stuff we want to keep track of and comment on, all our likes and loves and things of note. Basically, huggy RSS on collaborative steroids.

Unfortunately, I don’t see this happening. Buzz is already becoming a low whine, puttering its way into the internet ghetto. Are you sad at all? Did you even notice?