Comments on: Can we get a little sanity here please

By: Mark Trapp

Mark Trapp — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 12:01:55 +0000

I hear you, Steven. Every once in a while I'll have someone subscribe to my Friendfeed, then subscribe to every. single. service. I'm on. Even services I haven't even used for more than securing my name. I don't mind the cross subscribing for people I'm interacting with constantly, but I promise you new follower, anything interesting is happening on Friendfeed, not Polyvore or Yelp or whatever else I impulsively signed up for.

I gotta say though, GFEES really makes trying out new services easier. One of the big problems with any social network, especially for people who aren't early adopters/social media whatevers, is once you sign up for these services, they aren't fun unless you have a network. Any time one of these services comes out, like for instance identi.ca yesterday, I get at least 30-50 people friending me up, so I can get in and play with the network right away.

By: PurpleCar

PurpleCar — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 02:13:20 +0000

Yeah I keep going back and forth about my Twitter feed being on FF. But honestly, it is all just noise in the end. I will make the extra effort to post something important on FF after I post it on Twitter. As for the multiple connections to the same people, meh. Doesn't bother me really. But I don't follow back on FF. Trying to keep it manageable.

By: Eric Rice

Eric Rice — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 23:09:21 +0000

We must control ourselves in what we publish. Once upon a time, I was a noisy bastard on Twitter (nearly 17,000 tweets), and yet, I will not add my Twitter account to my Friendfeed, even though you could tune out that *part* of me.

I'll say it again, Friendfeed is what Feedburner could have been: a conversational aggregator.

By: jezarnold

jezarnold — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 22:02:49 +0000

Fully agree! Sometimes I look at the applications that are available, and whether they get decent reviews or not, and before you know it you have a new username and need to add some friends.

What's needed right now is XYZ application, that has the ability to say, “these people are my friends, and if I add them or they add me then don't bother telling me” Any new service I can add to XYZ and it will automatically add my old friends etc.. we do need some link in!

You're in my priority list in gReader right now, so as long as you have something interesting to say, then its gonna get read! I will tell you now, that you leave it a month or so without adding some value, you will get relegated to my secondary list.. and these days thats a “Mark all as read”

By: StevenHodson

StevenHodson — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:28:03 +0000

Jezarnold - don't get me wrong I appreciate every single FriendFeed or Twitter friend request but there has to be some semblance of noise control instituted somewhere :).

Also I am glad you are enjoying the blog and I hope I keep writing stuff that you enjoy reading.

By: jezarnold

jezarnold — Sat, 29 Mar 2008 21:19:24 +0000

Guilty as charged! I would blame it on one LG After all its his Google Reader Shared feed, that got me reading and loving your blog in the first place!