It's not surprising that a Nov. 27 survey conducted by Google shows the number one complaint to be feeling of isolation and loneliness when logged onto the system.

Google Wave Users Want More of Their Friends on Wave

Google was pretty stingy with the invites and it's coming back to bite them. The hype is dying out and Google Wave is in danger of landing on the refuse pile of failed Google projects right alongside Orkut.

On Twitter, I hear a lot of people complaining that there's nobody on Google Wave. What good is a ground breaking, category busting, collaboration platform if there's nobody to collaborate with? Last I checked, collaboration was a lot like tango - It Takes Two.

Even people I know with the elusive Google Wave accounts are impossible to find. That's because Google has provided no contact search facility.

But why are we so demanding of Google Wave? Remember when you first got your email account? There was no master directory of email users that you could search. You had to share your email address the old fashioned way - by telephone or business card. That didn't stop us from using email and adopting it in droves.

But this is a different world and Net users have a different set of expectations. The bar has been set by such Social Media standouts as LinkedIn and Facebook. It's so easy to find people on either of those systems, it borders on annoying. Heck, I've found or been found by people I never wanted to hear from again. Fourth Grade teachers, old girlfriends, people I threw up on in college. 

With Google Wave, I can't even find my buddy Pete - a guy I did business with in three different companies. We both Tweeted about it. Figured we could search names or company names and come up with each other's Google Wave accounts. But nope, he's no where to be found. I guess we'll have to do it the old fashioned way - we'll have to post our addresses on each other's Facebook Walls.