Eric Rice

Purpose: exploring the egotistical side of social tools, and naturally, talking about things people might not want to talk about in public because it makes you like an egomaniac. However, it might be not be that egomaniacal at all. - Eric Rice

I only check those tabs occasionally to make sure I'm not ignoring anyone. I sparked off a pretty good convo once, all the big dawgs showed up...I missed the whole thing... - Rahsheen™

Jesus Christ do people really do that? - Jim Stanger

Most of us don't get nearly as much action on our Replies and Me tags as you, Eric ;). My default is my Friends tab. - Annie Boccio

As a note: I only follow 28 people (doing the opposite of Twitter) and it's not terribly overwhelming, so mechanically, I have no excuse for ignoring it. So there needs to be some chart or line graph of something to map exceptions, lol. - Eric Rice

I monitor nothing but my Friends tab in Twhirl for both FriendFeed and Twitter - Douglas E. Welch via twhirl

I check everyone page all the time. - Robert Scoble

Friends is default to me too - Joe Dawson

friends tab all the way - I primary use FF to give some love to what my friends are posting - FF is a conduit between the people in my social network :) - Steve Lawson via twhirl

I default to Friends, don't check the Everyone tab too often (maybe once a day?) 'coz it's got a lot of other language stuff in it, and only a "search?q=Yuvi" when I'm in a time crunch - Yuvi

How do you get utility out of FF and the like if you don't venture out? that said, it might be nice if FF could notify me if someone comments on something i've written, then i'd never need the ME tab. - Christian Anderson

Friends tab all the way for me. Only click on "me" if I'm curious about any replies or need to find a comment I left. - Craig Eddy

Hardly ever check everyone tab. It has to be a very boring day for me to do so. - Nicholas Helke

i'm always on the friends tab. I already know what i'm posting so I don't need to look it over. - Justin

According to firefox3, i come to the me tab (that's what I have bookmarked) and the discussion tab most often. I use the friend tab a lot though and use it more with the greasemonkey scripts I've installed. I really need to write that "how I use friendfeed" post. - Jason Toney

Friends view only. I figure I pretty much know what I've been saying! - Simon Bisson

OMG I only check Me then I'm back to page 11 and missed anything I started and wanted to make sure I didn't miss anyone. Always on Friends. - Cyndy

oh, and much like twitter, I stay away from the everyone tab. Too much noise. - Jason Toney

To help get the conversation back on track, who checks the ME or REPLIES tab? (This is to prevent the 3242934809 replies that say "I check the Friends tab"... Thanks, got that. :) - Eric Rice

Christian: Brightkite did this with the amazing 'mentions' tab, one of those twitter-pro features. since @you @him @her is only visible to @you under replies, not @him or @her. Ok, that was too retarded to type, sayin. I get loads of utility out of FF, socially and as Feedburner 2.0 heh. - Eric Rice

I only look at replies to see if I missed a reply (in twitter). here, I look at the me page once or twice a day similar to replies. Otherwise, I am parked on the friends page. - Rob Diana

Okay, I do a search with q=Yuvi. That finds all references to my Likes/Comments, as well as other unseen posts where people had referred to my name. It's like a super Me tab. - Yuvi

I only watch for replies from you, Rice :) - John Swords

I am almost aways on the friends tab. If I wanted ego, I'd go to Twitter. - AJ Kohn

I always stay on the friends page. I have no interest in what I've said. On Twitter I check replies if I have been away from the computer to see if I owe anyone a response. - Adrienne Van Houten

I haven't read all the answers on this thread - I promise I will - and I'm sure that they're all thought provoking and what-not, but my knee jerk reaction is "I sure hope not." I've come to loathe the word in all it's meanings. And I used to use it *liberally* .... with all it's meanings. But it's too easy, especially for a black person, to get made the hypocrite. As with Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick who "buried the word last year", and then was found "playing the dozens" with it via text. - Barry Wynn

i always keep my friend's tab open, i know what i posted and i'm in no danger of anyone replying to me here. - Faboo Mama

I start on the friend's tab and then click through to most of my friend's individual feeds to make sure something interesting hasn't been crowded out. - Kyle Hebert

I like to look at friends page for stuff that came in through other people (friend of friend, or just friend). When nothing much comes through I will look at the everyone page. When I feel inspired I will search for stuff that I find interesting and 'like' that and 'comment' on interesting things. - Peter Stuifzand

I check the me tab when I've not been on the site in a while, just in case I've missed new comments on my posts or whatever the hell these things are called. - Erica Baker

I go to friends - read the first page - go to me to see if any responses - then back to friends for a few pages - then check a few individual pages - then back to twitter. - Lucretia Pruitt

I periodically check the Replies tabs to make sure I didn't miss part of a conversation. - John Federico

friends or rooms, me tab maybe 3-4 times in all - Ro (Lilyhill)

Barry, you posted to the wrong thread. Can you copy paste it below? Thanks! - Eric Rice

BTW, in this instance 'me' on FF and 'replies' on twitter almost have the same functionality. It's the place where you see comments/conversation to or @ you. Much like the Flickr page for Recent Comments, etc. It seems like some folks are misunderstanding what the ME tab serves (in addition to, of courses, it's where your posts are (not applicable in twitter context). - Eric Rice

Tabs? I use the rss feed for friends (with meself hidden) and only occasionally clear the me and me with discussion feeds. Every once in a while I'll hit the 'best of' buttons ... - Ashton