Comments on: It’s not about Friendfeed, It’s about Friends – A Requiem

By: Batman

Batman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 19:25:20 +0000

I think you've made a fundamental assumption that is surely flawed, as nowhere in anything I've read so far does it say that friendfeed itself is going to go away. When Google bought Blogger, they simply slapped their label on it, and influenced is growth. I believe much the same thing will happen here. I just don't like what happened on principle, as I never really like it when a big company buys a smaller one, regardless of the sector.

If they keep the two sites separate, as I would hope they do, it follows that casual users won't notice a difference. My fear would be that we get another Myspace situation, and the site itself becomes unusable.

By: clarke thomas

clarke thomas — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:59:50 +0000

so I wonder if Wave will come out quicker now? That's the only service I see that could supplement for Friendfeed.

By: Rob Nelson

Rob Nelson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 18:10:08 +0000

The best friends that I've made on FriendFeed are also my friends on Facebook. This trend has been growing in recent weeks, and I certainly have seen a surge again in the last 24 hours.

No, the community of FriendFeed will not be lost. It will continue to move over to Facebook (and the next new shiny website). And with FriendFeed technology to power parts of Facebook, the level of conversation will improve there, and bring even more people into the community.

I fail to see how this is not a great thing.

By: app

app — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 17:41:51 +0000

I have said this before, many times, and I will say it again: Friendfeed is the first and only social network to capture and hold my interest for more than a week, and make me feel like I belonged.

It was different…so very different, so very special. It quickly became home. Yes, it's the people and that is what I wish I could take with me when I leave friendfeed…every last one of them.

By: Batman

Batman — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 14:25:20 +0000

By: clarke thomas

clarke thomas — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:59:50 +0000

so I wonder if Wave will come out quicker now? That's the only service I see that could supplement for Friendfeed.

By: Rob Nelson

Rob Nelson — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 13:10:08 +0000

By: app

app — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 12:41:51 +0000

I have said this before, many times, and I will say it again: Friendfeed is the first and only social network to capture and hold my interest for more than a week, and make me feel like I belonged.

It was different…so very different, so very special. It quickly became home. Yes, it's the people and that is what I wish I could take with me when I leave friendfeed…every last one of them.

By: gregsmithsays

gregsmithsays — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:48:08 +0000

http://knowthenetwork.com/blog/2009/08/its-not-...

Brings me back to 'shifting sands' and 'not marrying technology' – as my grandfather said, if you want loyalty, get a dog – http://ping.fm/vxY5J

By: Tsudo

Tsudo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:11:13 +0000

Your welcome. It might be a bit harsh but I call it how I see it.

I liked that line myself.

Thanks for reading and for your comment, I appreciate it.

By: AamanLamba

AamanLamba — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 07:04:37 +0000

Thank you for this – I esp like “Friendfeed was the Scholars College and Facebook is the student union. Friendfeed is full of engaging content and conversations and Facebook is full of useless updates and quizzes.”

By: I said Goddamn – Facebook acquires FriendFeed?!?! | Nilesh Babu

I said Goddamn – Facebook acquires FriendFeed?!?! | Nilesh Babu — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 02:31:20 +0000

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By: RobertHiggins

RobertHiggins — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:51:47 +0000

Actually FB has all my gold friends and FF had all me silver.

Why is the Rum always Gone?

By: jvjannotti

jvjannotti — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:47:16 +0000

Excellent. My feelings are nearly identical, except that Fb feels more like the Grade School Playground than the Student Union.

By: Tsudo

Tsudo — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:06:14 +0000

I so hope you are correct.

By: corq

corq — Tue, 11 Aug 2009 00:04:08 +0000

All is not lost. I felt the way you do about del.icio.us when Yahoo bought 'em. Granted, it's a bookmarking service, but they haven't made it unuseable (yet) and they've had a while. If they're smart, they'll keep friendfeed sovereign from *requiring* a Facebook identify to post, but perhaps plug in Friendfeed back to FF in a useable way.

Well, okay, but it could *happen*…