Google launched it’s new social network a few days back, Google Buzz. It’s more like Friendfeed than it is Twitter or Facebook. Since it’s launched, I’ve noticed that I’ve been putting posts on it that would make for OK blog posts, rather than the sort of thing I’d usually post to a status orientated social network.

My general rule of thumb where social networks are concerned are, if it’s something I think my friends/family might be interested in, I stick it on Facebook (as that’s where that social graph is), but I tend to post more geekier things on Twitter or this blog. The key difference though, is I stick stuff on Twitter and this blog, not because I want people to read them, but simply because I want to write them.

The problem with Twitter though, is that you have a 140 character limit. For me that’s not usually enough.

The problem with this blog though, is that I like the posts to be reasonably thought out and formatted – complete with links etc. As a result they take that bit longer and as a result don’t always get written.

In steps Google Buzz. Now when I have that thought that exceeds 140 characters, rather than use the blog (or never get around to writing it) I’m now finding I write it on Buzz (see my Buzz page here). No need to care about formatting there!

I’ve probably written more to Buzz in the first couple days than I did in the first few months of using Twitter.

And I was just getting use to the idea of nuggets go on Twitter, longer pieces go on this blog….