Morgan- thank you. That's really kind! Alex- nice that you do that for your fiancee. [And do you like the bread pudding with or without raisins- that's a point of debate between the hubs & myself.] Tiramisu party indeed - Sasha, especially with coffee. That's a great call! :)
- Abby Martin
At least she did not leave with a rain coat...............
- Kevin Hatton
you can't explain Macs. They just 'are'. You should have told her that she's not worthy to buy a Mac. Then she would have bought one for sure.
- Morgan Haley
I'm confused: why is it FFers complain about strangers, "rude new comers" noise, etc etc etc but will then turn around and talk about how FF growth is flat? Call me crazy, but you can't have growth without newbies folks.
I'm not sure those are the same complainers.
- Jandy
+1 Tina. I agree. If you keep chasing off newcomers, you're doing more harm than good to FF. Sure, spammers should be run off. But if someone is just annoying to you, that's no justification for attacking them and chasing them away from FF.
- Jason Huebel
Complaining for some is their normal interaction with the world. When we all started using social media tools, we were all aggravating to a degree. Need to lay off the newbies a bit, unless they are going down the path of relentless marketing and get rich quick posts, then it is smackdown time! ;-)
- Eban Crawford
I think my example this week with VerothicA from deviantART is a good one. I could have easily blocked the user and thrown abuse back but I don't see that as being healthy for me, for the other user and for the community.
- Kol Tregaskes
I thought it was the old timers who were annoying. :-)
- Robert Scoble
I'm passionate about new users as the services needs them to grow and feel that FF doesn't support them very well, e.g. no proper tutorial upon completing registration and the issue with the suggested users list. It's one reason why I've created the FF-Beginners group here: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... and why I check for new users (as best I can) daily and welcome them aboard.
- Kol Tregaskes
Scoble, is that you trying to instigate a "Get off my lawn!" moment? ;-) I definitely try to welcome the new users I come across and answer any questions as best I can. And yes, I've run into people who make me want to bash my head in with a ball peen hammer in the process (both new and old), but I handle them the same way I do in real life: polite interactions only when necessary.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I do have to admit it's taken me quite a while to find my feet here at FF. It also took me some time to find my way on Twitter, too. I'm finding myself using both services for different things now. It also takes me more effort to find people I'd like to subscribe to on FF for some reason. Maybe because new people keep getting chased off? ;-)
- Darren Landrum
You mean kind of like how the flood of AOL newbies helped grow the Internet back when? But please let's not restart to old game of duping them in to posting "me too" like back in the alt.news days. ;)
- Michael Leonard
Darren, my first month on FF was no fun at all. I followed maybe 30 people, no one was following me, and I got my main feed in my feed reader. The result? No interaction on the items I posted, I didn't interact on items other people posted, and the posts that DID get interaction drove me nuts by reappearing all the time in my feed reader. Once I threw my hands up and decided to just hang out here and have fun with it, my experience completely changed..
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
It definitely takes time to understand how Friendfeed works. I was lucky when I joined in that a few people subscribed right away, so I got to see some interaction in progress from the start. Even so it took a few weeks to really learn the system.
- John
I think starting on FF can be hard, people don't follow you automatically when you follow them as many do on Twitter, if you don't have a decent feed no one subscribes to you but it is unlikely you will have the motivation to have a decent feed with no audience. On Twitter you will be followed mostly by bots and people that will never read your tweets but your followers count increases...
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- M F
I think a new user tutorial should include an live interactive post and comment part at the end, with something generic like "Hi just joined FriendFeed" in the title. Then us old users could choose to have a saved search that seeks out these posts and welcomes the new user?
- Kol Tregaskes
Well, I just decided to turn off all of the "Publish FF to Twitter" options on my account here. No need to look in two different places for replies to something I published to only one. I think this will help me adapt a lot.
- Darren Landrum
I don't know, Kol, that almost seems kind of forced. With the system as it is now, I as a new user would probably find good people to follow by search. If there's an interactive signup tutorial, perhaps it'd be worthwhile to have a part where you enter three words or phrases that you're interested in. Me, I'd pick 'hilarious', science, and a specific turn of phrase. Use those words and setup custom searches in the tutorial, and you have a ready-made list of people with interests similar to your own.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I will make people mad but... SOME early adopters get BIG on a site when its just early adopters there... then Mainstreamers get involved... and they wanna see kitties and boobs and not talk about bandwidth and apps and unique visitors! But there is way more of them and the numbers are moved off the Techie Early adopters and it goes to a Kardashian... This pisses off SOME early adopters and they bitch about the newbies. Then they move to a new product. Cycle of life! (My uneducated thoughts!)
- Cody Heitschmidt
You have a point, Cody, but I really do think FF offers features that can prevent that. 1) Only subscribe to people when you want to see the MAJORITY their content. 2) Hide imported services you don't want to see. 3) Use saved searches to find content of interest to you based on keywords rather than poster. I post a lot of useless crap so I don't expect certain people to follow me....
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- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I completely agree with you FF Kicks a huge pile of ass. i love it. i was just trying to give my opinion on why early adopters (again just SOME of them) bitch about newbies. Early Adopters are famous in the Early to Kinda early adopter crowd, but 75% of the world never heard of Robert Scoble (maybe more) (I use Scoble as an example cause I don't consider him a whiny early adopter, the...
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- Cody Heitschmidt
Yep, Directors Cut. The good version. Enjoy. :-)
- Kol Tregaskes
Introducing them early. Good. Have you read Dune to them yet?
- Tommy Keene
No dune, but my 11 year old has read works by Orson Scott Card and Jules Verne
- RAPatton
from iPod
That's impressive! Verne is not easy reading!
- Tommy Keene
I had him read The Mysterious Island because I loved it as a kid; the Card titles were Ender's Game (of course) and Space Boy; I am trying to figure out which HG Wells title for him to read. I am leaning towards the Invisible Man
- RAPatton
from iPod
@DeadSilence... that line has always been debatable in my mind: is it "f*cker" or is it "father"?
- .LAG liked that
...Hey Louie, the man is DRY. Give him one on the house, OK?
- .LAG liked that
@LAG: it was originally "fucker" but got changed in the recent re-release. my 1990s Director's Cut version has it as "fucker" in both the audio track and the captioning.
- Dead Silence
MY MOTHER?....Let me tell you about my Mother!
- Live4Emma (L4S)
DeadSilence... +1, that's good knowledge. I have the Director's Cut, unicorn vision, yadda, yadda, but I never watched it with captions. it sounds like "I want more life... father" to me, but the alternate would fit the Roy Batty character to a tee.
- .LAG liked that
...I'm from the, uh, Confidential Committee on Moral Abuses...
- .LAG liked that
I can't wait to watch this with my son, I love it--
- Kelly W.
Kelly, one of the great things about having children is you get to share all the things you love with them. :)
- RAPatton
Wow, whatever you do, don't google "Asian guys at beach licking" if you want to find the Flickr account for this. No, seriously. Just...don't. o.O
- tinypants (Amanda H)
changed my life forever...I will always go to the beach with a a few chubby buddies after porking myself up for those bosoms ~ and this image is most definitely going in the ol' spank bank
- sofarsoShawn
Remember ! I bring quality product to Friend Feed !:)
- Akiva Moskovitz
you know what would be funny: ok bear with me, if we blindfolded leather donut (you know the booby man) and...yeah fill in the blanks...something like this http://www.youtube.com/watch...
- sofarsoShawn
WHY IS THIS IMAGE BACK?!?!? It was even in my Safari Top Sites.
- Zach Flauaus
Sir, randomly linking to your FriendFeed from one of my posts is oh wait you'll never see this because you're blocked for spamming. Thanks anyway, kaghazrangy.
- Akiva Moskovitz
damn this picture just won't go away - you have forced me to hide it
- William Harryman
Akiva, wasn't that pic taken at your last BBQ?
- Paul
Every time I see this picture I smile. Their joy is infectious, like herpes.
- Thparqui, totally a fake
Paul, I surely do wish I had a beach in my back yard!
- Akiva Moskovitz
Sparky, I'm going to have this blown up to poster-size and attaching it to the ceiling above our bed. That'll cause some infections!
- Akiva Moskovitz
makes me want to grow a rack and diddle with my own, know what I'm saying?
- sofarsoShawn
this. . . .this. . . ugh . . . so fucking wrong.
- Peter Ghosh
I still want to know the motivation here. is this a gay marriage argument? or are we already pushing group social contracts on friendfeed?
- NoahDavidSimon
oh man this one keeps popping up on ma friendfeed,....must spread virus nao
- Chris Hofmann
I'm surprised no one's noticed old boy's red-framed glasses.
- Akiva Moskovitz
oh right... the glasses are so important when three asian men are licking his nipples and all the comments are by people who think gay marriage has something to do with equality... when it has everything to do with taking protections away from children. the red glass glasses.... um yeah. chicken and Oklahoma with milk
- NoahDavidSimon
Mark, you have uncovered the dark underbelly of humanity except in this case it isn't dark but is rather a pasty hue somewhere in the vicinity of undercooked flan.
- Akiva Moskovitz
This should be in the default noobie FF stream. Like the first thing anyone who signs up sees. If they stick around they're part of the family.
- Tad, Anti-Immanentizer
Perhaps this can replace the kitty pic on the start page for non-members!
- Chris Charabaruk  ̄ω ̄
I'm certain prop8 had nothing to do with Swine Flu
- NoahDavidSimon
I'm thinking that eventually, it will have been hidden by every user on FriendFeed. It'll be the most hidden post in FriendFeed history.
- Akiva Moskovitz
WHY WHY KEEP BRINGING BACK THE EYES THEY HURT ME
- Neal Jansons
from IM
I wonder if the FriendFeed guys see this and say to themselves, 'Well, this isn't exactly what we had in mind when we started started FriendFeed.'
- Akiva Moskovitz
I look at it and think, "Not again."
- Steven Perez
from IM
Just about the time you FF is getting some class .. Oh well we is what we is.
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
I can't believe after all this time some diligent FF'er hasn't dug up the identities (I said "titties") of this bunch and invited them to join the service that made them famous. Mitchell Tsai, get to work!
- Sprague D
i think if you unlike and delete all your comments anna it'll go away, but hide in general would be nice too (this photo makes me smile every time it pops up so don't mind it)...
- mike "glemak" dunn
*sigh* This is never going away, is it? It's gonna end up like James Bond movies and Swedish meatballs - always existing in the same form. never diminshing, never forgotten. :( :( :(
- Steven Perez
from IM
It will go away, to be replaced with photoshops of the original. It's all part of the meme lifecycle.
- Thparqui, totally a fake
I am too new on friendfeed to know anything about record comments.. I love gmail tho, puts all the comments in one threaded email and I can delete them all later in one shot or not if I choose..
- David Gross
from email
well we should aim to beat the record.. i mean jeez there are tons of things that could be said about this.. like.. does it taste like chicken?
- ed fry
I'm gonna have nightmares now. thanks ed. ;)
- Alejandro
ok, in Japanese: "an, an, soko dame!"
- Rick Cogley
You can't close this thread. A lot of people say that this place is a Scoble-fest but, truly, it is this thread that is at the very heart of FriendFeed.
- Akiva Moskovitz
For those of you who hate it when this pops up every so often just remember, Akiva can make it go away. :)
- angrykeyboarder™ (Scott)
OTOH, I lmao everytime someone gets pissed that this keeps coming baaaack. :D
- angrykeyboarder™ (Scott)
I'm officially going to proclaim that this is the FF equivalent of Goatse or FFoatse if you will. Lets all refer to it as that from this point forward.
- Mark Krynsky
Sparky has left 57 comments. The rest of you are slacking. Hop to it!
- Christopher Harley
Chrisitan just walked by and said "It's too early in the morning for Japanese titty licking." It's NEVER too early for Japanese titty licking.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
THIS is the first thing I see here this morning?
- l0ckergn0me
Chris, you just woke up? C'mon, man! It's 10:30!
- Akiva Moskovitz
I knew he would break eventually - it's fitting that it's on this thread *now to find out how to hide a thread once you've commented....*
- WorldofHiglet
As much as I am loathe to bump this post, I have to do it to say, You, sir, are a master. Well played, sir. Well played. This is why I take every opportunity to say, in my next life, I want to be Akiva. I've already called it! Don't anybody go getting any more ideas.
- patricia
I, for one, refuse to "bump" posts...it's very unseemly...
- Live4Emma (L4S)
I wish FF-search allowed to do GROUP BY -aggregations so I could COUNT(*) who are the biggest *bump*ers. :)
- Jemm
The more I see this, the more I like it. Not for the ironic nipple-licking, but because these kids are genuinely enjoying themselves. :) Carry on.
- felicious
The four horsemen of the beachocalypse
- Aaman Lamba
Sayeth guy-who-waits: If only this were Total Recall.
- Rick Cogley
This photo looks so much better in iPhone 3.0!#!~
- Akiva Moskovitz
Seriously dude. What do I have to do to get rid of this disgusting picture!? Doh! Now I've just pushed it back to the top... yuck, I'm so sickened.
- Jason Nunnelley
I love this image, because I have no clue why it's happening. Randomness FTW!!
- James Fuller
from twhirl
I'm just thinking of all the new folks coming to friend feed and see this and wonder just what the hell did I get into anyway? And why in Gods name can't I spell Friend correctly the first time - GRRRRRR
- Brent - Mugwumps R Us
Can't believe I never hit 'like' on this! Consider the situation rectumfied.
- Bec Rowe @d0tski
Oops! I hope I didn't just bump this up again... ;-)
- Sprague D
It's just so refreshing to see genuine juvenile humour at work. These kids are no different from any other, I think it's a great happy image, given all the other shite happening in this world on a daily basis. For those that are too pompous and prudish, 'up yours with brass knobs'
- ImJustCreative
Wow. 666. Nice! Actually, the reason Asashoryu is getting a divorce ( http://ff.im/4T0UA ), is because he wants to spend time with this lot.
- Rick Cogley
I would rather go to http://woot.com and buy the Acer Aspire One for $259.99, I do not care that it is a refurb.. but what would I do with two laptops? Maybe #hive knows? hmm..
- David Gross
from email
What's this? A real question in this thread? Two extra laptops? Make them fancy digital photo frames.
- Jordan Hofker
Reason #696 why the Internet can grant you immortality. ;-)
- darnell
from BuddyFeed
I can't believe this thing is still floating around Friendfeed. These poor guys... ha ha ha
- Bradley
LOL @Ha3rvey. There's a certain demographic here in LA who wears them. I can't not stare. Usually they also have horrible extensions so with that and the orangey tan it's like looking at a walking 'before'.
- Anika Malone
If you wear it with dreads, I think that's the *only* way to wear them.
- Anika Malone
Anika, in college I asked my white co-worker "What's up with those girls that are Bert colored?" She clued me in to the mysteries of spray on tan.
- Detective Sandy Vagina
LOL Kaia, I not-so-secretly call them muppets or oompa-loompas.
- Anika Malone
I have been thinking the same thing! I am always looking for ways to make more interesting creative hairstyles without looking too over the top, at the same time. I keep seeing the ads for the Bumpits and saying to myself, "I bet those don't work on dreads..." LOL
- Desiree Diva Hickson
Oh my. It's getting dark and swelling. [Her head is a deadly weapon. She broke my nose when she was 2 by launching herself at my face while we were playing.]
- Abby Martin
Scott- that's a good answer. I like it :)
- Abby Martin
Abby, you have my sympathies...I had an operation on my eye, 3 weeks ago and still got the bruises to prove it!! It's such a tender area and it hurts!!! Hope you feel ok...
- Emma
Let that be a lesson! :p j/k I bet the kid is glad you think it's an accident.
- Josh Haley
EMMA! What happened to your eye? Are you ok? I hope you are feeling better.
- Abby Martin
Abby, I'm not too bad, don't worry about me!! Other than the bruising, you wouldn't know I'd had anything done but it all started with an insect bite on my eye which caused bacteria in the eyelid and in the end, they had to operate on it. Then I had an infection from the op. *sigh* So, it's been a tough 3 weeks but I'm slowly getting there with some very loving tlc but thank you for asking, and you too Yolanda. Thank you both!! :)
- Emma
Ouch. Their little bodies are ridiculously hard.
- Anika Malone
Sometimes protection gear is required when playing with small, but tough people :)
- Baard Overgaard Hansen
from iPhone
guy at (ex-)work had to wear an eyepatch for a week or so because his six-month-old gouged him. !
- edythe
It happens. My youngest son headbutted my in the nose and cracked it once.
- Jason Huebel
I just remembered how my son (with the razor sharp fingernails) gave me a cut on the back of my ear that I thought would never stop bleeding.
- Ha3rvey
So far in her short life my daughter has broken my nose, scratched my cornea and given me more than one shiner. But it's only because she has a very hard head and a tendency to launch herself boldly. I am going to register that head as a deadly weapon. Good thing she's a sweet and loving child or I'd worry she was trying to take me out. ;)
- Abby Martin
Ouch! My son used to headbutt me, but never that hardcore. Sorry Abby!
- Shevonne
When my first ex was still my first "life" partner, she walked into a cupboard door and gave herself a rather tasty shiner. The problems came when the girls at work asked her how she did it. You see, "I walked into a door" is the most common excuse given by battered wives, so you can imagine what her work colleagues thought of me!
- Sir Slippy of Slippington
I was thinking about settings up a private group on FF for the people I work with. I think it would be better than sending tons of emails back and forth, and a great place to collaborate. Has anyone done this? How is it going?
We are doing this, it works... But you need to reach a "critical mass". The contributors/readers ratio is approx. 1/10.
- PiccoloImprenditore
There are only 3 of us (including myself) so it shouldn't be too hard to get them to join. I just wanted to see if anyone else has been doing this.
- Shawn Hickman
piccolo, how many people are currently in your group?
- Shawn Hickman
Mike, I was actually just looking at them. Seems pretty cool. I was trying to make FF my central hub for as many things as possible, so I will see how that goes.
- Shawn Hickman
Shawn - gotcha :) Yeah FF is becoming my central hub these days too. It's nice to have a service that can integrate with everything else like FF does. It definitely beats having to go to a bunch of different places on the web.
- Mike Bracco
I just need FF to integrate into a client like Seesmic Desktop or Tweetdeck so I can have the trifecta of FB/Twitter/FF in one place.
- Mike Bracco
That's what I am waiting for too. I would love to have nothing but FF open in my browser all day. I wonder how Google Wave will affect this.
- Shawn Hickman
Shawn, we are 10 + many freelance consultants, depending on the project. What I'm really missing now is a way to "open" single threads to externals (customers). Looks like Google Wave might be more effective for this - that would be a problem because I love FF.
- PiccoloImprenditore
piccolo, thanks for the info. It is going to be interesting to see how FF reacts to Google Wave.
- Shawn Hickman
Alp, thanks. I am looking into both. Do you use any of them?
- Shawn Hickman
Yammer is great. We use it for a team of 6 and it's perfect. I even have it set up to come to my SMS so I am reachable when I'm out of the office.
- Ward Seward
We use Yammer as well, and it works reasonably well for us (w/o the 140 char limit). Yet to figure to SMS it, as most of our use is asynch and not time critical.
- K Srikrishna
Mike B: twhirl supports twitter and friendfeed, still lacks facebook though
- Mike Chelen
We have been playing with this in the group that I work with and it does have some use. We have found that some things like task assignments seem to still work best in email. We do find it useful to have short conversations about new sites that we have found and about designs that we are working on. There have been instances deep within a 'discussion' where we really wish we had some threading features.
- Aaron Choate
from Nambu
I do believe FF could become a very efficient collaboration platform for business, but there are only few known success stories. If it worked for you, please tell us how and why http://friendfeed.com/friendf....
- Jérôme Flipo
Funny you should mention this. The tech team at my church have been considering using FF as way of setting up specific live-streaming ministry communication/collaboration. Let us know how it continues to develop for you. My biggest concern is security and unnecessary feeds dropping in.
- Bill Lunsford
Once again, it's all Steve Ballmer's fault
- Bwana
light blue dude takes a face plant. chick gets blamed for cutting off pinky and ends up flipping over. pinky is saved when he falls on chicks legs. green glasses boy wins the race and has the rest of eternity to tease the shit out of his friends for falling down like a bunch of bitches. funniest gif ever
- Morgan Haley
Is that Steve Ballmer in the blue shirt?
- Rutger Blom
This is why you use friendfeed and feed all your stuff to twitter.
- Alex Scoble
Wait so that was just a typo, my #unacceptable is still killer as I had it right at 140. :P
- Adrian Culici
@Alex - that's usually what I do, unless I'm on my Google to Go device, but I can't help but feel like I'm missing out on a whole different world over there since I more or less stopped actively tweeting. But I really do HATE the character limit and all the dumbasses. Friendfeed is more... civilized.
- Adrian Culici
Search for posts liked by Friends who are on a certain List. e.g like:list_name
- Ahsan Ali
Search for posts that have an inline image. e.g has:image
- Ahsan Ali
Search for posts among friends only (excluding groups). e.g friends:me
- Ahsan Ali
Search for posts in all groups I'm subscribed to. e.g groups:me
- Ahsan Ali
Search for posts in a specific language. e.g lang:english
- Ahsan Ali
What about search within My Discussions.
- Chris Heath
Chris, you can simulate that with: comment:cheath OR like:cheath ...but it would be nice if that was given as an auto-complete option if you used the search box on the "My Discussions" page :)
- Ahsan Ali
Yes, I was thinking of an selection in the dropdown with the lists.
- Chris Heath
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- Anika Malone
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