The most idiotic opinion on Google Buzz so far
I’ve read many opinions on Google Buzz over the past month. Some are smart, some aren’t. Today, I read one that takes the cake, as far as idiocy goes. From the article:
I’m not a social networking fan, anyway, and to break my GMail, my primary email account, with something as stupid and useless as Buzz; I’m irritated. I usually wake up to 20 or more emails in my Inbox first thing in the morning. Today, I had one. Yes, one. I’ve sent numerous messages out today and I don’t know if they’re swirling about in some mail queue or if they’ve reached their destinations. Thanks Buzz. Thanks a lot.
I’m not sure that Google’s tech people realized how much bandwidth a service like this uses. It’s a lot. Just ask Twitter. It’s especially bandwidth hungry because, unlike Twitter, Buzz doesn’t limit you to 140 characters.
The insinuation that Buzz is responsible for his low email count this morning is utterly ridiculous. Does he think that Buzz has created some magical black hole in Teh Google’s intarwebz that’s sucking up his email?
Also, the whole “bandwidth” thing is beyond stupid. Yeah, I’m sure Google’s tech people (the folks behind Youtube) don’t know much about bandwidth.
No, it isn’t beyond stupid genius. Twitter has gone down because of it. You are the one who is idiotic and has no idea what he’s talking about. There was a GMail outage that day. It was widespread and you’ll find that it was caused by Buzz…but you just keep spreading your idiocy.
Ken: Twitter hasn’t gone down because of “bandwidth”. Database outages, server issues, etc., are all potential reasons, but “bandwidth” is totally trivial for text-based websites like this.
Furthermore, the fact that there happened to be a Gmail outage says nothing about Buzz. There were plenty of Gmail outages before Buzz ever existed, and saying it was caused by Buzz without any evidence is pure stupidity. Of course, if you can provide some evidence, I will immediately take it back and declare you correct.
great comment Ken!
Yeah, incredibly well-thought-out.
@ken, what evidence do you have that gmail and twitter went down because of buzz?