It’s all about your intentions online. Most intentions can be grouped into 3 categories: knowledge gathering, broadcasting and conversation. There are many services on the web that can potentially serve those intentions. It depends on your purpose as to whether or not a service brings you value. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

I think that was very well put, Lindsay! - Jan Ole Peek

Thanks, Jan. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Very thoughtfully and intelligently written, Lindsay. - Anne Bouey

1UP, Lindsay. - Derrick

I shoulda been Lindsay for Halloween. I could've had great hair and kicked peoples' asses with my brain. - tinypants - Hagitha of FF

LOL @ tinypants :) That would have been quite a scary costume! - Lindsay is in 20-ten

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Fantastic post, Lindsay. Totally agreed. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

Well said, Lindsay. Honestly, the only reason for Scoble to post about his dissatisfaction with FriendFeed is to get attention. Personally, what he likes & dislikes means nothing to me, since he's not a friend of mine or someone whose opinion means anything to me. Like you say, he has very specific things he wants from social sites. It's not what I want & it's not what most people I know want. - josh neff, geek at large

I know that part of Scoble's reaction is for attention, but I also can read between the lines that he is really disappointed because he knows that FriendFeed is probably the best tool out there but now it's no longer going to grow feature-wise so, as a bleeding edge adopter, he can't stick with it anymore.... - Lindsay is in 20-ten

...I think he's a little embarrassed that he was backing the "losing horse" for so long and basically had to "eat crow" with some of the people that he made enemies of on FriendFeed's behalf (though, personally, I think he was right about FriendFeed anyway). I think he's in a bit of despair like the rest of us at all the time and effort he put into participation here seeming to "go to waste" now that he sees the platform as dead. And I think he's secretly hoping for some kind of miracle to revive it but frustrated that it won't come and his attempts to invoke a hero to save FriendFeed have failed... - Lindsay is in 20-ten

...I empathize with all of that, but a lot of us have moved on to acceptance and just want to continue our interactions here. And he's making it harder for us to do that by driving people away that could be more of a justification for keeping the service alive in the future just because of their numbers. And it's also demoralizing and depressing. I would like for him to show some respect for people he used to call friends here and knock off the abuse. - Lindsay is in 20-ten

Excellent. Thank you. - Steve Lowe

well put, Lindsay! - Joe Silence is Dr. Teeth!

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Not only does she put the 'is dead' conversation in an appropriate space, she also does a fine and thoughtful assessment of what tools can be used for what purpose. Thanks, Lindsay. - Holly Rae

Scoble was right about FriendFeed being better. The problem is when you have companies like FB with lots of money to throw around, they can kill superior tech by writing a check. If you've been following TechCrunch lately they have articles on dubious ways FB and FB app developers get their money. Zuckerberg and early FB was apparently supported by shady casino ads. http://www.techcrunch.com/2009... - Ed Millard

When I grow up, I want to be as cool as Lindsay. - Louis Gray

Hey I saw this lady on CNN before :) - Rodfather

Holden, you mean my post or the one on techcrunch. Your post is even holier than mine :) If you meant mine, how so? I struggle getting points across in the 512 limit sometimes which means I'm hopeless on Twitter. - Ed Millard

Holden, I would be interested in hearing specifically, maybe on another thread, other than the obvious it was apparently written by someone whose done it and profited. I'm a complete noob when it comes to sleazy social network spam though it is a fascinating study in human nature and how to exploit it. That article mostly added to my list of reasons I like FF and have no interest in FB. - Ed Millard

Nice post, thanks. Heard and understood. - Robert Scoble

scoble - why dont you just make a message board? invite all your tech friends, you'd be in heaven! sure, it's not as clever as say something like this, but you get what you want then.. - Terry O'Fee

Her Lindsay-ness: another stance users may adopt is to stick with friendfeed only until such time as something better comes along, regardless of whether it actually gets shut down or not - Mike Chelen

@Mike, I would probably put those folks under reaction #2... that is typical of any user of a service. The one thing that you can't take with you to the new service, however, is your entire community. The people who make up your community on FriendFeed would most likely splinter into several other communities in the "new, better" services that come along. I don't see any better options technically out there right now that offer all the features of FriendFeed or one-up them. It will probably be a while. I don't think Facebook will ever really match it because it is so overloaded with purpose. I don't think Twitter can match it because it's so crippled by it's format. But maybe something entirely new will pop up, like FriendFeed did almost a couple years ago. - Lindsay is in 20-ten