I just hope enough people read it. I killed a few of my friendfeed streams for the exact reasons you cited - why duplicate. My dilemma is now centered around Twitter. I use one of those services to tweet my blog posts, but I also have my blog posts show up as a stream. Duplicate? Yes. But I have some friendfeed friends who aren't on twitter. What to do. - Ross McKillop
I discovered i was duplicating so I corrected that. - Russellreno
Comes back to why we need one social community! - Phil Ashman
Excellent point. I will be cleaning mine up momentarily. - Rob Diana
I became more acutely aware of the duplication issue after joing FF. The only duplication I have left is cross-posting blog to Twitter. However, I think that is justified because I suspect I have different readers on each channel. - Andy C
I now feel foolish that I commented on this post on the actual website. How stupid of me to not use FriendFeed instead... ...via AlertThingy - elroy
It happens a lot here, some people shares everything in several services and all of them show up in their streams in FF. I understand why people promote their blog posts in Twitter, but sharing the same thing in StumbleUpon, gReader, delicious, etc? - Alejandro S.
I've been thinking about a "managed lifestream" app. Like FF except instead of all things going public, they go into a queue where you approve which go into the stream. Defeats the purpose of lifestreaming for most people obviously, but seems like there's room for a middle-ground between blogging and lifestreaming - Jeremy Raines
@Alejandro that bugs me, too. I'm noting who exactly did the stumbling, deliciousing of a blog post. If it's someone other than the blogger, that's a plus, if it's the blogger themselves, it's just noise, and I don't appreciate it. - Jason Kaneshiro
@Alejandro and Jason - I add blogs that link to me to del.icio.us to track coverage, and on rare occasions, I'll add my own posts to del.icio.us, as so far, that's the only way I can find out "who" bookmarked it. I can't search del.icio.us to find out, so it does look odd. Also, sharing via Google Reader does a few things: Adding to the link blog, and contributing to RSSMeme, ReadBurner, etc. - Louis Gray
I dabbled in blogging mid last year, but all it was really was my attempt at a lifestream before I ever heard of services like Friendfeed. I did end up crossing the streams at times. It never felt comfortable since I didnt want to spam. At the same time though I kept thinking "I have differents sets of friends on twitter, stumbleupon, pownce, ect. How else can I make sure they all see it?" Now ofcourse that could be solved if just everyone who friend/follows me on all those different services would just use friendfeed instead, and I post different types of things to different services. But I can't expect everyone to use friendfeed just because I ask. I'm sure it will all sort itself out one way or another - Tony Miller
FF could make this easier and 'collapse' multiple items into one i.e. if I share something from Google Reader and bookmark it on delicious, only one item should appear in FF. I wonder if FF is too focused on where we doing things rather than what we're doing? - Andy Davies
what I'm saying is that, if you add the same links to 2 different services, there's no need to add both services to FF. Just one would be enough. Of course, if there are things that are unique for each one of them, it's understandable. - Alejandro S.
Great article and nice reference to Ghostbusters. I'm guilty of crossing my streams. That's because I'm a mega-consumer of my own streams, so I keep them all completely connected (borrowing term from graph theory). But in terms of output, only a few things get crossed. Overall, I think redundancy is good, but I can also see that it can be annoying too. - Mike Reynolds
@ Andy I second the idea that FF could have an option to hide dupes. Dupes also makes it harder to choose which one to "like" on FF. Say I "like" a blogger's post. Do I comment "like" on the original one, or the delicious link, or the twitter link? Obviously the original post would be best, but the way it's set up now, one has to page through all the dupes to find it. - Jason Kaneshiro
