Google Buzz was released the other day and I’m really liking it.

One of the original things that attracted me to Facebook, was the ability to easily import data from my social networks to display to others.  Be it information automatically being imported from Youtube or Hulu, but also if I wanted to share a link it would give a decent amount of metadata to my friends.  But the flip-side of that is the constant noise and junk people put out there.  And the fact it’s taken me 2 years to gain the 100+ friends that I have.

With Google Buzz, they did something very nice.  Everyone who is your friend in Gmail automatically becomes your friend in Buzz.  No more spending years to find friends, send friend requests, etc.  Plus they support a lot of my social networks automatically with I’ve already filled out in my Google Profile.  So when I make a Twitter post it automatically comes through into Buzz.  Sweet.

So is this the end of me having to keep both HootSuite and Facebook open during the day to get my news and information?  Possibly.  I’m in Gmail all day as well anyway since it’s my main email client.  There is still some polishing up to do but overnight I think this has created major threats to Facebook, considering they have yet to integrate FriendFeed into their application for real-time social meta importing.

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