1. It's new and thus noisier. It will pass.
2. Integration with your profiles is completely confusing. I have a blog that isn't tied to my Google Profile that is being pulled. I can't add the blogs I actually *want* Google Buzz to see. Why not?!
3. Buzz notes with little activity get no visibility and then disappear. Example: My husband, who doesn't have many friends/followers, sent a private buzz which disappeared off the screen and I couldn't find it even after I expanded everything.
4. To follow point #3, I tried to search for the particular Buzz item and it was nowhere to be found, probably because it was private. Google shouldn't discriminate between private and public buzzes. If I see them on my stream, I should be able to see them in my own search results.
5. I hate how the emails are coming up in my inbox. Do not want.
6. FF also feels nicer. Buzz so far has had irrecoverable errors several times. The FF interface is similar but it's just ... better. It's hard to explain. I'm sure you FFers know what I'm talking about.
7. Buzz is always in your face. I'm one of those people who hates the number of unread emails in my inbox. If I see Inbox (10), I have to get it down to zero STAT. Now I have Buzz (67) and there's no way to "mute" that number without clicking into Buzz. Maybe I should just turn it off.
8. UGH. Just because I follow you in Google Buzz does not mean I want to follow you in Google Reader. Let me separate the two!
9. I don't want to mute Buzzes I started, but I don't want them going in my inbox either. It's an all-or-nothing thing right now, just like #8. Not enough granularity.
10. Every time there's an update to a new Buzz, a brand new "thread" starts in my inbox. It doesn't recycle the old thread, so I have all these annoying emails. Do not want.
11. When your sent mail becomes saturated with Google Buzz, you realize that this is a really really crappy execution of Gmail. It doesn't belong at all.
Via: Tamar Weinberg
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