You know, Nik, you are one hell of a filter yourself! I can just sit back and let you do all the figuring and filtering and then just do whatever you say to do.

I guess that’s my reward in these, my golden years, to have a wonderful daughter like you who will take care of this little ol’ lady! Ha!

So, yes. I joined in “the Buzz” (the name is irritating right off the bat) and got agitated because somebody I don’t know was on there talking about “bumping bodies” or something, so I blocked her. Then I turned on my Buzz filter, as you said, and will now see what happens.

Thanks my Dear for doing the leg work… again!

Oooh, thanks for the quick filter tutorial! I’m going to go try that out on Buzz, for sure!

Thanks Nicole, I just turned on the Buzz and will see what happens with it. I now realized why my filters weren’t filtering! Didn’t have ‘skip the inbox’ checked.

Thanks for the lessson!!

I turned it off for now because I’m super focused on staying focused! I couldn’t find that little buzz turn off link until a helpful buzz friend of yours told me where it was.

I may come back to it later (when it’s better?) but I gotta keep pluggin away at what’s getting me results for now

Hmm… I haven’t tried it yet. I saw the little tab in my gmail the other day, took a quick peek and felt annoyed, so I ignored it and haven’t looked more closely yet.

Seeing how you had conversations has me interested again though, I like that part. I might have to add that to my weekend check things out to do list.

“Manage yet another social networking site.”

I hear you there.

You’re very welcome!

Hey Mark, thanks!

I chose to set up “Buzz Stuff” as a new label, because it allows me to ONLY see who’s responded to my active “Buzzes” without viewing all of the clutter from the main “Buzz” area.

Just ensures that I can easily interact with those who’ve made a step towards me.

Hope that nasty stomach flu goes away!

Buzz you soon,
N

I agree. I’m sure there’s more behind the curtain. We shall soon see.

At this point I’m still not in love with Buzz so I too, have turned it off for now. We’ll see what happens later when I find a way to manage yet another social networking site!

Thanks for the indepth feedback.

Your “filter” idea has me re-thinking what I did earlier today – which was click on the tiny little “turn buzz off” section. Like you, I felt it was stealing my focus and needed to be stopped. I do like your point that it’s nice to interact “Twitter-like” but with more characters so I think I will give it another shot. Thanks for the great insight… as always

Nicole;

I think Buzz is pretty cool, but I am not sure what it is good for exactly yet.

By the way, another option for filtering would be to create a filter with label:buzz in the “Has words text box in the filter tool” box. That might be more robust.

Also, no need to create a buzz stuff “folder” because that will just be a duplicate of the Buzz folder that is already in your tree.

Thanks for sharing your thoughts. It was fun buzzing with you today as I recovered from my stomach flu (yuck).

Regards,
Mark

Good post Nicole. I’m interested to see how Google develops Buzz and Wave in the future. They don’t seem to be telling us the whole story yet.