Ego-boost. - Robert Scoble

Can it be a useful ego boost? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Ego boost and echo chamber apparently. - Soulhuntre from twhirl

Useful. I learn something new and 'meet' new people everyday! :) - Mona Nomura

Stupid: of course. I learned what you all thought about Hillary's speech tonight. - Robert Scoble

A mix, sometimes I learn, sometimes I stroke my immense ego. Sometimes the latter blocks the former. - Mo Kargas

Both. Social Media is just a medium, in the same way that blogging or RSS is a medium. It's how we communicate and engage to find new information and people. It's not the medium, it's the message. - Louis Gray

Mona: you WOULD say that. After all, we all met you here. And fell in love with your "Likes." Proves it's an ego boost. :-) - Robert Scoble

I don't think you're really going to see people who use it as an ego-boost admit that it's an ego boost. - Mark Trapp

Those who pooh-pooh "social media" today remind me of those who dissed the early Web in 1994. And believe me, I fought lots of non-believers at that time. "The Web is just a frivolous distraction," was the main point of those who did not see the tsunami coming. The Social Web is as big a wave. - John McCrea

Well I think it's what you make of it. It can be both useful and an ego-boost. Linkedin has been very useful for me too, in terms of getting work, without too much effort on my part either. - jjprojects

John, she doesn't pooh-pooh social media in the article, but the culture surrounding it. It's a demented social hierarchy that props up things that feed people's egos over really useful social media tools. - Mark Trapp

Mark. Sorry, my comment was not specifically directed at her, but rather at the provocative question in the title. - John McCrea

RTFA. :D - Cyndy

This reminded me of Alexander Van Elsa's post.. how do you monetize off of all that data: http://vanelsas.wordpress.com/2008... - but the fact of the matter is, businesses are just looking for whatever service will get them the most views. In the end, it's all about the traffic. The difference is social sites can later (hopefully) be targeted for core audiences of a product and/or service. - Tim Hoeck

Robert: I share things I like and am excited about and FriendFeed is one of the rare places I interact with those that have the same broad interests as me. I love the conversations and exchange of information. It has nothing to do with 'ego', Robert. If I wanted my ego boosted, I would be barhopping and clubbing. :) - Mona Nomura

ego boost for now, but I've got a plan to make it very valuable, and I can't be the only one. - Jason Carreira

Mona: I thought this WAS the adult equivilent of barhopping and clubbing! More fun, less rejection and no hangover! :-) - Robert Scoble

Brian: I just subscribed to you. How's your ego now? - Robert Scoble

Oh come on Brian. - Kyle Lacy

Ego boost until the buzz-words vanish. First to drop should be the "social" precursor to media. - Andy Angelos

Robert: I'm female, single, and live in San Francisco, where - mind you - the ratio of males to females is almost unfair... Rejection almost never happens, if you fit in any of those categories ;) - Mona Nomura

Think of it like high school. Let's see who's successful in 10 years :) - Charlie Anzman

I'm aging, married, male, live near San Francisco, so you can see my different worldview. :-) - Robert Scoble

both. useful and ego-boost. bottomline: just like most things in life, it's how you intend to use it. - ~C4Chaos

@Robert I don't know about you, but there has been a number of times I wake up in the morning with a FF hangover. - Tim Hoeck

Hah, Charlie: I like that. Who's going to marry the Facebook cheerleader? - Mark Trapp

HA! Hence, the ego-boost factor. To each their own, but don't make judgments or assumptions about me, please ;) - Mona Nomura

If I was Mona's age again ... I'd WOULD be barhoppin' and clubbing (not dukin' it out with Robert :) - Charlie Anzman

Charlie, I am secure with myself and who I am. I haven't required an ego boost since I was in middle school. :) - Mona Nomura

ego-help - adolfo foronda

Useful AND Ego-Boost? - Igor Poltavskiy

For me, ego boost - Francine Hardaway