DISQUS

KnowtheNetwork.com: Its not about Friendfeed, Its about Friends – A Requiem

  • corq · 4 months ago
    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*...
  • Keith · 4 months ago
    I so hope you are correct. Thanks for reading friend.
  • jvjannotti · 4 months ago
    Excellent. My feelings are nearly identical, except that Fb feels more like the Grade School Playground than the Student Union.
  • RobertHiggins · 4 months ago
    Actually FB has all my gold friends and FF had all me silver.

    Why is the Rum always Gone?
  • aamanlamba · 4 months ago
    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."
  • Keith · 4 months ago
    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.
  • gregsmithsays · 4 months ago
    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
  • app · 4 months ago
    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.
  • Rob Nelson · 4 months ago
    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.
  • clarke thomas · 4 months ago
    so I wonder if Wave will come out quicker now? That's the only service I see that could supplement for Friendfeed.
  • Batman · 4 months ago
    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.