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Very sad day I think. - travispuk

Congrats! - Daniel Brusilovsky

congrats indeed, but damn, this seems like it's going to be bad :( - acedanger

exactly - mike "glemak" dunn

NO Congrats or whatsoever "to Paul, Bret, and the whole FriendFeed gang. But I hope you bring a big shot of openness into the Facebook ecosystem, because it doesn't feel that way right now." Matt, dear! You Stole My Words! ROFL :)))) Just curious - is there anything more important than money? It seems NOT ROFLMAO - Lora Lufark

lots of truthiness in that statement. - Sushubh

I am sad. No congratulation at all. - bellegarde-webb

Besides being closed, Facebook has never adequately addressed serious privacy issues in its past. I strongly distrust them as a company and I'm sad to hear that they're gobbling up a service and a group of people I do trust. But if both services end up being elevated to FriendFeed's high standard then this will be a great day in hindsight. - Doug Beeferman

Well put doug, I feel same way: I trust FF, I dont trust FB. I'm skeptical this acquisition will change FB enough for me to trust it, but we'll see. - Evan Parker from Android

Facebook is a cult - Joe Dawson

Has anyone got an idea for a friendfeed alternative? - Ru Viljoen

Ru, I think Hellotxt.com might be a decent alternative to Friendfeed (it can also post to Friendfeed for you so you can keep your feed if you wish). I may start using it instead. Not sure. There's also identi.ca which claims to be adding more features for cross-posting. They use the Opensource Laconi.ca platform - PurpleZoe

thx for suggestions but looks like those are both exclusively microblogging platforms. - Ru Viljoen

no congrats, but I agree with the rest. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

Identi.ca is mostly a microblog (I hear cross-posting networks should be enabled soon), but Hellotxt.com is a lifestream (you can cross-post and etc across networks) I believe. Unfortunately it's slow at times. I'll miss Friendfeed if it gets sucked into the Facebook network, instead of remaining a stand-alone app. Not at all happy about the acquisition. - PurpleZoe

3 other possibilities: lifestream.fm, Socialthing.com and possibly Streamy.com - PurpleZoe

Now might be a good time for socialthing to exit private beta and enter public - Ru Viljoen

Don't forget to count me! - Dave Slusher

andrew keen is 1st - Steve Gillmor

you mean i'm first to be clueless? - andrewkeen

yes - Steve Gillmor

Professional clueless - paul mooney

:-) - Johni Fisher

I'm in the cult of the amateur clueless - Dave Slusher

Don't forget to take your real watch.. - Dale

Back: everybody is. thanks for playing. - Steve Gillmor

oh gee. the one day I turn everything off because I'm trying to get work done that actually pays and you play this game. LOL - Karoli

no, feldman is exempt - Steve Gillmor

FF needs Like blocking capability - Steve Gillmor

btw, I saw this on Facebook. - Karoli

I hate Facebook. - Nattjenta Moon

turns out Keen is the only one who doesn't get it. Guessed that, but data confirms it. - Steve Gillmor

Natjenta, me too. was there to approve a friend request, steve's message was at the top of the news feed. LOL - Karoli

The new Steve is cracking me up in real time. - Louis Gray

I'm not in real time. I was at the Sonos event listening to music and saw this two hours after it was posted. - Robert Scoble

More spam and lost boyfriend for Mona! - Johnny

Ugh. Facebook is starting to irritate me. - Mona Nomura

Did you guys know the app APIs get reset all the time? So devs have to monitor their FB apps and rewrite to keep up with the changes? They've also changed the invite system so established apps get all the ad revenue and the small guys get jacked. Which is fine by me, since app invite overload bugs me but the monopoly pisses me off. It's also EFd up how they're just looking out for themselves while trying to make it seem as though they are creating a platform where everyone (even the small guys) have a - Mona Nomura

way to monetize. Shady. AND they have access to all of our information. I keep saying this, but I've never been anal about privacy until Facebook. OpenID ftw. - Mona Nomura

Hey Facebook, wanna focus on something like i dono, telling me how many views my videos have? kthxbai. - drew olanoff

can I please have more virtual fake ass gift applications please? - sofarsoShawn