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I wanted to agree with you, and I'm only on Facebook because of non-geek friends, but I survive with twitter, newsfox (Firefox plug-in), and tumblr -- sometimes

by auxbuss 16y ago

I wanted to agree with you, and I'm only on Facebook because of non-geek friends, but I survive with twitter, newsfox (Firefox plug-in), and tumblr -- sometimes sharing via dropbox. Buzz is, unfortunately, a vacuum. And Google Reader for some reason doesn't quite work for me over Newsfox. I agree that Facebook is horrible, in many ways, and hasn't progressed much at all in any useful or meaningful way (for HN-type users), but Google, while having the tools, needs to apply them better to win over the market. Hell, I'm desperate to lead my non-geek chums over Facebook's horizon, but Gooogle's apps aren't there yet. Heaven only knows why, though :-/

crocowhile 16y ago
In a way I hope your non-geek friends will never join buzz because I definitely experienced facebook jump of the shark exactly when my grandmother and her tea friends started joining. I don't know what google plans really are: I don't know whether buzz is so unfriendly because they want to target a different audience or simply because they don't see much future in it. Reader is a good tool. It's faster than the aggregators I tried in the past (netvibes mainly), it works on my phone and it has a smart stumblupon-like feature that is promising.