With the recent rollout of the new social stalking tool called Buzz, Google has enabled Google Nation to easily find out what the person next to them on the train is typing into their mobile smartphone, without even craning their neck.  But that isn't what I am really planning to talk about here.

The funny thing I have noticed by checking out the Buzz layer on my G1 Google Maps app [with some random public buzz around Cambridge, MA] is that there are a lot of Buzzes asking stuff like:

• "Hello from buzz mobile.  Unfortunately the gps is really inaccurate- i am really a half mile away, on [address withheld]  street! iphone FAIL."
• "Buzz is unable to pinpoint non-building based locations. Fail.  On the other hand, giving people the ability to fake locations is a great privacy boon."
• "Buzz is genius.  I'm selling my equity in facebook n Twitter"
• "Checking out the buzz in MIT"
• "Buzz on iPhone? Ooooo"
• "Trying droid at Google"
• "Now I'm buzzing with droid"
• "buzz on google maps is pretty cool"
• "A lot of buzzing around mit"
• "Cool, Buzz shows you who's near you.  Kind of creepy, but still cool."
• "Google Buzz?  Why does everything try to be like Twitter/facebook?
  • "Because Goole is taking over the world!"
  • "Money"
  • "I dunno, this seems cooler"

How funny.  This new teknology has brought us back to the days when the web was used as a vanity by companies.  Remember "Look, we're on the web" from the tops of Kelloggs cereal boxes?  Well the initial content coming from a lot of people tied into Buzz seems to be in that same vane.

The second most types of Buzz I have read in my small sampling tend to be related to what people are doing at the moment, on the bus, still at home sick, happy hour at XYZ bar...

It seems like this type of content is shared with initial posts from new Twitter users as well.  With that said, I figure that the lame-ness of public buzz should taper off, but are people going to ditch their other social broadcast accounts???