Comments on: A Plea to Fellow FriendFeeders

By: Kenya

Kenya — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:14:58 +0000

I'm not a fan of the FriendFeed blasts. There's no context for the links that are flying into Twitter and some have all of their “Likes” and comments sent to Twitter as well. I've seen 10 FriendFeed tweets back to back. I'm fine with the blip.fm links because most of the time they aren't all together. I'm also fine with Twitterfeed if you don't send any more than one of two tweets at a time.

By: Nukirk Digi.tal

Nukirk Digi.tal — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 00:10:59 +0000

Yeah, I definitely agree with this.

I don't use Friendfeed often and I get annoyed when someone on Twitter is really just echoing back stuff. Sure, some people I follow don't really say “informative things” all the time, but that's okay. My thing is to communicate with them. It's harder to do that when you are merely echoing something that I could easily see on another service.

By: Kenya

Kenya — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:14:58 +0000

By: Nukirk Digi.tal

Nukirk Digi.tal — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 17:10:59 +0000

Yeah, I definitely agree with this.

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Sun, 02 Nov 2008 21:22:36 +0000

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By: Mark Krynsky

Mark Krynsky — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 18:34:05 +0000

I couldn't agree with you more. I initially only setup feed publishing to push my FriendFeed posts to Twitter, but soon realized even that would annoy most users since there isn't an option to allow linking directly to the link in the FF post and would force people to hit the FF url only to click again for the destination URL. I'm not going to annoy my readers by doing that so I quickly turned it off.

I submitted 2 requests to FF feedback here and here that IMO would make this new functionality better.

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 12:32:16 +0000

Sounds like a neat idea. It seems simple to get people on IRC when it
becomes the medium of communication around live video feeds.

As far as the MSN thing, that could possibly work, but I doubt it would kill
Twitter. I can't text MSN from my cell, I don't even have an MSN account. It
would probably be trivial to create a timeline for MSN messages, but most
people use IM for privacy, so I'm not sure how that would catch on.

As a matter of fact, I have friend that refuse to talk to me on Twitter
because they know anyone can see what they said.

By: jessestay

jessestay — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:53:16 +0000

I need to come up with an idea that socializes IRC – I don't think
Twitter is quite that. There could be an interesting model around that.

One other thing I find interesting – Microsoft was at Bearhug camp
earlier this year. What if Microsoft were to build a Microblogging
service around MSN? ByeBye Twitter.

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» A Plea to Fellow FriendFeeders | SheenOnline — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:13:12 +0000

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By: Neal "thePuck" Jansons

Neal "thePuck" Jansons — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 05:03:39 +0000

I have to say I agree as well. I thought this was a bad idea.

By: Rahsheen

Rahsheen — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:56:10 +0000

True, Jesse. Which is why we should be even more careful of what we do.
There are no social media ops that I'm aware of. We have to police
ourselves. And, yes, IRC is still awesome

By: jessestay

jessestay — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 04:52:28 +0000

The problem with Twitter is you can't necessarily kick them and have them know you kicked them from their group of friends like you can do in IRC. Blocking someone doesn't have the same affect as /kick – IRC still kicks Twitter's but IMO

By: ChaCha Fance

ChaCha Fance — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:40:52 +0000

I couldn't agree with you more!!!!!! Twitter is starting to turn more into a lifestream & veering away from being a micro-blog. And I don't care for Twitter either.

By: GeekMommy

GeekMommy — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:25:46 +0000

I never dump FF stream into Twitter – if anything, it's the other way around… Twitter dominates my FF stream.

But the two are NOT the same environment and not intended for the same type of information exchange, so I'm 100% behind this post.

By: kellyvbrown

kellyvbrown — Sun, 02 Nov 2008 02:20:20 +0000

Chacha and I had a conversation about this yesterday. I TOTALLY AGREE! This is NOT a good idea people. Please listen to and heed Rahsheen's words.