Google launches Buzz

 Google Buzz launches. My Google email account had a new message that welcomed me to Buzz.

It read, ” Welcome to Buzz.   Buzz is a new way to share updates, photos, videos and more, and start conversations about the things you find interesting. You’re already set up to follow the people you email and chat with the most.”

So I tried it and it is easy to use, once you approve a profile.  They preset you up with others in your address book.  To me it looked liked my Google Wave list.  Google Buzz has the look of Twitter and the functionality of Facebook. It is listed in your Google side nav bar, so easy to use.  You can follow and unfollow at the click of a button.

 Now why and how would I use it?  I think I am going to keep this one as a small group of contacts that I will communicate with and not the larger groups that are on Facebook and Twitter.  Not sure that is how they intended for it to be used?  How will you use Buzz or is it another Wave which turn out to be to far ahead of its time and not really usable?

Update: Mashable reported this morning less than a week there have been over 9 million post and comments already.