Google automatically setting up your followers for you is bound to draw a lot of ire. Anytime a company takes data which users thought of as private and make it

Google automatically setting up your followers for you is bound to draw a lot of ire. Anytime a company takes data which users thought of as private and make it public users quite rightfully feel violated. However I don't think that Buzz is just creating more noise. As roc11 pointed out for him, and other users who get a large number of "check this out" emails, buzz really results in a decrease in noise. As to the complaint that Google should be concentrating on solving the data overwhelm problem; this is a really hard problem, Google would love to solve it (or even make the data only slightly less overwhelming), and they are certainly putting money into research that could lead to a solution, but you can't just solve hard problems because you want. They just take time. "This post my [sic] seem like the ranting of a mad man." Don't kid yourself that's exactly what this.