How can you tell when bloggers are bored?

They start rehashing a bunch of crap that has already been hashed to death and today saw the discussion about how noisy things like FriendFeed and Twitter are. The whole thing started with a well written post by David Risley called The FriendFeed Orgasm And Why It Is Off The Mark. While the reaction on his blog to the post was limited to (currently) 23 comments the majority of the action happened on FriendFeed with over double the number of comments.

As the bantering went on back and forth in the various comments Corvida apparently got fed up with some of the better than thou attitudes being exhibited and posted on SheGeeks a little bit of a rant titled Self Inflicted Un-Friendly(feed). Of course no sooner than I had read it I spotted a new post from Robert Scoble who suggested that we all need to develop our own noise reduction systems.

The fact is that; as Louis Gray pointed out in the comments on FriendFeed, this is an old argument that seems to resurface every so often - usually after some big name blogger discovers a new toy and the flood begins. It doesn’t matter what any social network or aggregator does it will never be perfect. There will always be noise.

This is the Internet folks - one humongous free flowing exchange of information and as such it is going to be noisy. It’s not like picking up a phone and just talking to a single person on the other end of the line. Things like Twitter and FriendFeed are like global party lines and whether you like it or not they are going to be noisy.

Not everyone is willing to throw on a set of trunks and swim in the noise as Robert is and there is nothing wrong with that. Just as there is nothing wrong with folks who don’t find things like Twitter or FriendFeed useful. It all boils down to learning how to cope with the inevitable noise so that you can still either enjoy the services or make them productive for you.

It’s not going to get any quieter out there and bitching about it over and over isn’t going to make the noise go away - it only makes it worse.

Conversation Tags: Internet, FriendFeed, Twitter, noise