I recently tweeted that I was closing my Google Buzz account. As I said at the time I was finding it a needless irritation in Gmail but my reasons were somewhat more complex than that.

I also left Bebo a while back, MySpace too is looking increasingly shaky and I recently closed my account on Dopplr. Although in this case it seems I might not be the only one. My reasons for leaving were simply that I don't travel the globe enough to justify it, but as the Guardian article says the fact that the site has been basically mothballed since it was bought by Nokia won't have helped keep my interest.

Obviously with the huge user bases of sites like Facebook, so the space has grown increasingly crowded. Being someone interested in the latest developments online I do seem to end up with profiles here there and everywhere while I try the site out and decide if it's somewhere I will keep going back to. Unfortunately there are some that just aren't going to make that cut.

Interestingly, since I left Google Buzz I've seen at least one tweet praising it as easier to dip into than Twitter. So the question is, do you think I was right to quit Google Buzz? Also which social sites have you ditched recently?