If you have visited the internet recently, or have a Gmail account, you've no doubt been deluged with ads, emails, or invites to Google Buzz.

And now, with the buzz of Google Buzz, PC WORLD is warning that you need to be careful before you expose more than you think you're showing..

Ian Paul writes,

"Another problem is that to use Buzz you have to create a public Google profile, which could end up exposing your Google e-mail address. Your e-mail address is one of the last barriers preventing people from getting in direct contact with you, so you may not want it out on the Web, for anyone to see. By comparison, Facebook doesn't allow people to get access to your "real" e-mail address unless you decide to make it public"

Another article from PC WORLD written by Robert Cringely, mocks Google:

"I wake up each morning with the same mix of hope and dread. I hope Google will buy me for a princely sum and allow me to retire to some sandy beach where they serve mojitos 24/7. And I fear Google will simply invent a better version of me, forcing me to get a job as a greeter at Wal-Mart"

Social networking gone extreme?

CNET news reports that Google Buzz may be a privacy nightmare:

"My colleague Molly Wood called it a privacy nightmare, but to many, Google's new social-networking tool Buzz is at its root an unwanted, unasked for pest. The way some of us see it, we didn't opt in to some newfangled Twitter system and we don't particularly want to see updates from contacts we never asked to follow creep up in our Buzz in-box. Call us what you will, but for curmudgeonly types like us, Buzz isn't so much social networking as it is socially awkward networking. We tried it, we didn't like it, and now it has to go"

...the consensus seems to agree: Buzz at your own risk.

Why can't we just go to malls again... Instead, the online world has become the new reality..