Real-time FriendFeed is showing a lot of people that they can't keep up with all of their followers. Pressing pause doesn't solve that problem. I think what'll happen is people will shrink who'll they follow and use filters for the rest. FriendFeed's beta goes towards that goal. - Mark Trapp

Just like people left FriendFeed because they couldn't deal with the noise. - Bwana ☠

Following everyone like they are news feeds is going to die with the real-time world. It's too much information. The filter failure problem is being solved: the new problem is follower failure. - Mark Trapp

LOL Mark. How about a set of dfferent Dunbar Numbers, as Lists. - Hutch Carpenter

Colby: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki... Dunbar postulated there was a limit to how many people you can have stable relationships with. - Mark Trapp

Hutch: I'm not sure lists are going to do it, and may even compound the problem: rather than seeing all stuff at one time in real-time, you now have to divide your attention (albeit unequally) between multiple real-time streams. It adds one more layer of complexity to an already overcomplex model. - Mark Trapp

The comments within a FriendFeed post need to be collapsible so that they're easier to scan. They break up the page right now making it harder to follow the flow of people. - Ernie Oporto

I don't think the failing of real-time for a lot of people is because of FriendFeed: FriendFeed is only the first of what will be many. There's going to have to be new ways to manage information, I think filters, not followers, are going to be it. - Mark Trapp

According to that logic you'd never go to a party because you'd never know which conversation you want to follow. Friendfeed is just like a party. you select who you think is most compelling, and which topic is most engaging. - Richard A.

Richard, exactly: taking the party example, only the really lame people go around to everyone they meet at a party and say "you're my new friend" and call them up every minute to ask them how they're doing. Instead, people rely on a select group of close friends to expose them to the greater world, and use filters to manage the rest. FriendFeed's filters and friend-of-a-friend features mimic real-world usage. - Mark Trapp