Facebook on Google Buzz: How Well Does That Friendship Model Work?

While end users are eager to try out Google Buzz for themselves, many of the Web’s largest social properties have expressed a certain amount of fear, uncdertainty and doubt about the search giant’s move into the social space.

A Facebook rep said that the company is interested to see how Google’s latest product will make the Web more social and more open, but the Facebook team has their concerns about whether Buzz’s friendship model is really all that functional. [...]