http://friendfeed.com/friendf... Sign it, party people!!! Subscribe to the group, leave your own INDIVIDUAL post about why this has upset you and why you want answers NOW! - Brad Williamson

Signed. But will it be delivered? - jcunwired

signed. - Dusty Edenfield

signed.. data and friends?? - Gtp19

signed - Pedram

signed - Ahsan Ali aka. Slick

No. Sorry. Oddly enough, I'm pretty sure that FF is perfectly aware of the issues already, given the 18,000 posts from FriendFeed users which basically say the same thing. Anything they can say has already been said. - Ian Betteridge

signed. What will happen with all of the pushing / pulling of the multiple other social networks and sites that friendfeed currently supports? - Vinny

Plus, not a chance in the world that I would sign this as you've spammed it to many completely irrelevant groups. - Ian Betteridge

@Ian Yup, I did. It needed to happen. - Brad Williamson

My question will not get an answer but signed anyway - M F

Well, sorry Brad, but I block spammers. Just because you think it's important enough to spam every group you can think of doesn't mean you're right. It's a completely selfish attitude, and I resent it. Sorry, but bye. - Ian Betteridge

money talks and bs walks. - Bill Kinney

Signed - JSLeFanu

^^^ too true, only the social community here is no bs. - jcunwired

Ian. you're funny. - Brad Williamson from BuddyFeed

signed - Manantsoa

Right now, I have this song on repeat... http://friendfeed.com/friendf... - Brad Williamson

Maybe I'm just not very informed.. but what's the validity of a petition? As in, does a certain number of signatures entitle the people to their view? Or is it just sorta saying "Yea, we all agree.. see?" and hoping people listen? - Angelo Rodrigues

It's just a stupid reason to start a new group ;-) Nah... It's really a place where we can all gather in common agreement about something that really sucks hard. And maybe it'll get the FF management to stop partying for a minute and tend to the people who really want some answers. - Brad Williamson

Do Friendfeed users stand at risk of losing all the bookmarks, notes and other data they have collected and stored on Friendfeed over a year and longer? - Sean McBride

I'd imagine so. - Brad Williamson

Losing all of one's Friendfeed data would be disturbing. Facebook and Friendfeed should issue an official statement on this question as soon as possible. - Sean McBride

I don't know how useful it will be, but I am here too - Flavio

Included in that data is our subscribers and friends we might lose. If there's one thing that carries over, our network of connections absolutely must remain. - Brad Williamson

"We absolutely wouldn't shut (FriendFeed) down." - Quote from FriendFeed management member on zdnet.com blog http://friendfeed.com/media-n... - Brad Williamson

wouldn't is not won't, and they always speak about the short term. what'll be in the long term? - Flavio

New Friendfeed group: Facebook/Friendfeed News https://friendfeed.com/faceboo... - Sean McBride

viva la resistance!! - Onur Gündüz

Signed. - Steven Perez, FF Bunneh

They'll speak up in time, give them a chance. ;-) Paul has said he'll post more soon - I think they all deserve some sleep. :-) - Kol Tregaskes

davidangel - David Angel from twhirl

VancouveRealtor - David Angel from twhirl

still not sure about all this but that picture is amazing! - james gray king

Speaking of FF feedback, this ridiculous cross-post should be exhibit #1 about why we need to be able to hide individual posts when browsing groups/rooms. - Andrew C

Thanks for the bump, Andrew ;-) - Brad Williamson

+1 Ian. We don't need no user drama... - Bill Sodeman

signed. - Valley

+1 to Brad. I like large crossposting. Brad is announcing possible new groups you can visit. It is good. Nobody is forced to go there. As to petition issue, Im sure FF team already reads it and is aware. http://friendfeed.com/petrnews - Petr Buben

See Paul's statement here: http://ff.im/6qQYJ - and have some patience, friends. - Bill Sodeman

And here is the response I left to Paul's statement... There are a few promises and guarantees that you SHOULD be able to provide. Like, that our network of friends will remain intact and that the features that make this site great will remain. If you can't make those promises, then you shouldn't have done the deal. I sure do hope that the real-time search engine wasn't the centerpiece of this deal (it probably was), because that certainly wasn't what made the platform as special as it is - it was the features that created communities that made FriendFeed something to love. - Brad Williamson

Such a horrifying picture... Why am I getting Service Unavailable on this?? - Kamilah Gill

I may have missed it but who drew that picture? - Benjamin Taylor

Keep this the hell out of the twitter room, thanks. Not commenting in any way on the cause, just your spammy blasting of it around. - Brad McCrorey

Ha! Don't you know that "Brad's" aren't supposed to hate on other "Brad's?" - Brad Williamson

Not hating on you, just your methods. I'm not an Apple Room admin, but I'd delete it out of here too if I were. - Brad McCrorey

Turning yourself into a spammer isn't going to help your cause, or any other. Quite the opposite. - Brad McCrorey

Brad McCrorey++ - Andrew C

Thanks Andrew :) - Brad McCrorey

Signed, not that I'm particularly worried about what they'll do, but to show solidarity. - Ron Bailey

also what happens to our stuff which we have posted on here if the close the site? - Chris Bellinger

I think what we all need is a statement from 'someone' at FF or FB to give a commitment as to (if or when) they plan to pull the plug. - Jim Connolly

I'm in. Thank you. - Niki Costantini

sign all the petitions you want it will not change a mulit-million dollar deal no matter how many you get. Don't get me wrong but these guys are living the American dream. It sucks to us because we all loved the idea of a community of like minded people, but at the end of the day no one owned this site but the owners. We may bitch but get real, there decision is signed. Move forward and stop living a tale of where we might get them to change their mind. If the tables were turned, no one seriously would say "no thanks keep your money and we'll try to be a small yet different group for the sake of "our" fan base." $50 Mill. is what we are all wishing to get. Again, it is sad to have happened, but come on if the position was switched you can't tell me you'd say let me live in my house and create code all day for others to play with so I can't make real money . Last time, I did not want to see this happen but I can relate to why it did. :) - Lokei Atikus™®

nice graphic! - Mike Chelen

signed. but i don't think this petition or any others (including facebook pages/causes) that crop up in the ensuing days are going to make an iota of difference to what has already happened. - Vijay

vijay: I agree but we can only try - outofmyarse

My guess is that FB will keep FF the way it is due to the fact that FB and FF operate in completely different realms...with FB adopting some of the FF technology to enhance the FB realm. That said, what FB now needs to make very clear is a commitment to keep FF the way it is. Although probably unintended, the acquisition announcement is having a chilling effect upon third party FF developers, most notably Seesmic, due to the uncertainty of the whole thing. - Stephen M. Otto

Per this there are no immediate FF changes but no guarantees http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL... - Carey Lumeng

Pros on the "Facefeed": actually may keep friend feed alive. Anyone know how they make money. May improve Facebook integration (<1% of my facebook friends are on friendfeed...no I don't live under a rock...just in the MIdwest). May actually improve FF function. I found a learning curve that I had to get over to make it effective. Took me 2-3 goes at trying to commit to the platform. Cons: May start seeing alot more ads. I hope FF doesn't look like FB in the future. I hope that they don't start throwing Apps and crap into FF. Keep it lean and mean - Carey Lumeng

My biggest concern is that the deal was established in an effort to not bring our community sharing features over to Facebook, but to simply give them access to FriendFeed's real-time search engine. - Brad Williamson

Can't you simply import your Friendfeeds data via RSS? Just a thought... - darnell from BuddyFeed

We now have a hundred Likes on this entry and 94 subscribers to the FriendFeed Petition group http://friendfeed.com/friendf... . I think if we break the 150 mark on each of these, FriendFeed will DEFINITELY void Facebook's acquisition of them. Yup, I couldn't be more confident that that's what will happen. Done deal, dudes... done deal ;-) - Brad Williamson

Yes... Santa Claus, Batman and Spider-Man will tear up the deal documents themselves! ;) - Bill Sodeman