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I subscribe to interesting people, who post/comment w/ something interesting, but I have seen a lot of people subscribe to me randomly. which makes me believe I'm on some list someplace - clarke thomas

Good point Mr Scoble..thanks for your support. - Scot Duke

I subscribe to interesting people who share interesting content and comments. - David Finch

clarke: you'll get random subscribers because of friend-of-a-friend. Scot, just having some fun. Some people here do subscribe to tons just to listen in, I'm sure there are even a few who want to spam. But I don't worry about who is following me. I can't control that. I can only control who I follow. - Robert Scoble

Because they think FF is twitter - Dayngr

I'm there with the Scobe...subscribing/following/friending the interesting really increases the utility of these tools. - Justin Whitaker

How can you say that someone subscribes to another with no interest in communicating with them? Sometimes I subscribe to someone because I found them interesting, or they liked something I had to say - Les Zaldor

I can't even control who I follow. We are, at heart, Borg. - XDpaul

It is also about learning (as well as taking part) - for this aspect you cannot subscribe to too many people (information overload) but you can learn a lot quickly if you subscribe to the right people. - Riaz Kanani

/agree with @XDpaul. I had no choice. - Carolyn Chan

Maybe we also need a three-tier ranking for FF subscriptions - Anna Star

Seconding (or is it thirding) the friend-of-a-friend notion. Also, maybe a little of the Borg thing, too. Not that that's a bad thing. I don't think FriendFeed is really about communicating with any one person in particular; I see it rather as an exercise in creating an ever-expanding cloud of connected information. - Derrick Burns

Probably because they follow too many people to be able to interact with all the folks they follow in any way. Unless their fulltime job is reading FF like Scoble's is - Daniel Spisak from twhirl

Every click of the 'Follow' button adds another node to the system. Just as we have hypertext--text documents deeply interlinked across a wide network of computers, we now have (at least the beginnings of) hyperthought: ideas mutually interlinked and cross-referenced across a mesh of social contacts. - Derrick Burns

People get hung up trying to put services into boxes. But you can't squash FriendFeed into any one box. Is it a social network service? Yes, for some. Is it a place to discuss things? Yep, for some. Can it be a great information/learning source for someone who has no desire at all to participate? Yes. And it can be and is everything in-between. Why isn't it OK for people to use the service how *they* want to, instead of how you think they should? - Robert Seidman

+1 Derrick - Hao Chen

+1 Scoble - Dave Martin

I have no idea who you are, but since I follow someone who follows you i get to read everything you post. how do turn this off? I odn't want to see friends of friends, i just want to read what my friends are syaing - Jonathan Jesse

*sigh* @ scot - no need to comment though since robert seidman already left the perfect comment :) - mike "glemak" dunn

To learn things I wouldn't know from people I already talk to. - Steven Perez

Ditto Scoble. I follow people who I think I can learn from or find interesting ... and we're ALL always learning ... especially in this dynamic place (the Internet). - Charlie Anzman

not always an issue about interest just about time in the day to comment - Arne-Per

Outstanding stuff here..I like Mr Seidman's point as well as all of he others. Live and learn and ask a lot of questions along the way is my motto..thanks all. - Scot Duke

Subscribing to people who bring interesting content means more ways to discuss what's going on out there. I especially appreciate people who bring in conversation starters to the feed. We all remember more about what we teach and conversation has always been one of the best ways to get a point across. - Derick Valadao

tad: no, my 14-year-old, Patrick. - Robert Scoble

;) - iTad

10 months is way too early for a baby to be saying video -- even Scoble's baby - Christian Anderson from fftogo

Isn't that... what the show is? I'm so far out of the loop. - Ⓒⓗⓡⓘⓢ Ⓟⓘⓡⓘⓛⓛⓞ

hmm. that doesn't suprise me. What would is if the spam said "Teletubbies caught in sex video with Spears." Now that would be a twist. - Ben Hwang from Alert Thingy

I wonder if there's a list somewhere of the most (and least) successful spam subject headings - Anna Star

A tiny bit off subject, but nice interview with Sen. Coburn, put it on the blog, and btw Twitter had some glitch going on, deleted all my followers and followees today, and I found someone else who had the same problem too, big pain! - MedicalQuack from twhirl

I guess that headline caught Patrick's eye. heh - Daynah

When Milian starts talking, do you think he'll say Nokia or iPhone first? ;) - Daynah

iPhone - Scott from twhirl

Daynah Milan greatly prefers the iPhone. - Robert Scoble

I haven't seen spam in so long, I don't even know what you're talking about - clarke thomas