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You know I was digging the idea at first, but now it's kinda like ehhhh I don't know if it's the best thing they could have done. I thought it would be used for personal use and group collaboration, but there is a huge rash attacking the groups now just to grab the names. - Andrew Dobrow

I said the same thing about this and Facebook groups. The FF community will decide which rooms will thrive and which ones will wither. - Bwana ☠

wow, great question! - Susan Beebe

It will be more useful than the Groups on LinkedIn have been, except as a gathering point for new contact addresses over there. - Michael VanDervort

I'm treating them like Facebook groups. I'll join very few of them. - Robert Scoble

It'd be nice if you could do some "Imaginary friend" like stuff in a room, like collect data topically. Push is a bit harder. - Clay Newton

Like I mentioned earlier this evening, Facebook groups are easily its worst feature. I don't really want to have to deal with "Social Media", "Social Media Group," "Social Media 2.0," "Web 2.0" "The web!" "All those people who are social bloggers!" "Bloggers who are social unite!" ad infinitum, each one having 50 or so people, just to make sure I'm following the entire social media trend on Friendfeed. - Mark Trapp

Excellent question jj...i suppose time will tell - Walter Schwabe

Two things I think will differentiate it from FB groups: 1. Reshare 2. Injection into main feed. It's really simple to participate in room discussion without ever going to the room "page". FB required that extra layer, while FF is seamless. Reshare is going to be useful for me. Especially with my Gaming group. I look forward to the links people submit. - Bwana ☠

Don't discount the feature just because of human greed. I still think they're an interesting function; they sort of combine different features of @replies, direct messages, and hashtags. And - speaking of greed - I do wonder what the time lag will be between FF adding the ability to change room owners and the first "camped" room showing up on eBay. - Chris Anthony

I am torn. I want to join multiple groups (oops, already have!) but I am concerned about the potential for unbelievable noise to clutter my FF stream. Greasemonkey save me! - Susan Beebe

I think it will serve some utility purposes for some easier to punch a url or something into a private room versus sending it to a mailing list - Todd Cochrane

because room content goes to feeds, i think this is different. but i think it could evolve into good collaborative discussion and knowledge base, or just more confusion or noise. keeping my fingers crossed that it's the former. - Deva Hazarika

Maybe I'm being paranoid but I'm worried that this is going to fragment the conversations and add clutter. For now I'm going to spend most of my time "in public" and only join a small number of rooms. - Mike Doeff

Time for a new YouTube account? I still have 495 to go - newbie at rating YouTube feeds. - Mike Reynolds

I don't want to create another YouTube account, I'd only have to keep track of yet *one* more web account and I'm fed up with that. I just wish YouTube would stop limiting users' options. First there was a limit on playlists, which got fixed, now there's a limit on faves, which I assume will get fixed at some point but is there to bug us for now. - Raoul Pop

Just refreshed my Flickr feed once more and it pulled in 20+ faves. Sweet. - Raoul Pop

that does suck - Vincent B Castro

that seems like a really odd arbitrary number to stop people at. - Chris Jones from twhirl

Hey, the limit has been lifted! I was just able to fave two more videos. Sweet! - Raoul Pop

Bwana, that's why we are early adopters. They'll come around eventually. I remember a lot of people bad mouthing Twitter a year ago. Saying it was a "fad", now those same people are all on Twitter. Give it a year, they'll all be on FF next. - Thomas Hawk

And by the time everyone's on FF some early adopters will find new things to well...adopt. It's the way it always is. Hopefully FF will still be able to draw users in by then. - Daniel Spradau

Well I admit that I don't get it yet. I'm finding that I don't have enough time to keep up with FF as well as the few other networks that I belong to but I'm trying. - Vaughn from twhirl

I agree with Mr. Hawk and Mr. Gray. First the early adopters, then the spammers, then the mass market people. I'm sure Yahoo is saying to themselves now, we can do our own Twitter (Yitter?). - Mike Reynolds

I know many people who use email, yahoo, maybe google and youtube. On youtube they barely now how to hit play. I do not think the masses really care about learning it, even if it would help them. - Rob Diana

Well, if they are not @ lots of social sites (like us crazies) I can understand. Really. But for those of us who are, it brings it all together in a simple, easy to read (and comment) area. - Barbara K. Baker

Ok, I need to re-read my own posts and follow through. I'm going to kick back and enjoy the complaining from the sidelines. - Bwana ☠

FriendFeed seems like one of those thingerate like my grs only the true tech geeks are going to appreciate. I'm trying to imagine someone barely computer-litandmother (who uses it to write email and play Yahoo games) using FF and I can't see it. - Shawn Farner from twhirl

Ok, anytime a new alert goes off, Twhirl totally butchers what I'm writing :( - Shawn Farner from twhirl

Dec 26th 2006 for my first tweet - wow! - Colin Walker

I think we forget that most of the internet population uses email and you tube. anything social media is still really not mainstream. Digg is still barely known by "normal" internet users. Anyone on twitter, is probably not a normal internet user. - Rob Diana

My first post was on 2006-11-18 & I do not consider myself an "early adopter". We are way past Dunbar's Number and I agree the dynamic is different today than it was then, but this suggests to me that Twitter needs to evolve. Perhaps Groups of Groups. - tagami

9/8/2006 and I felt late to the party. - Christopher Sacca

7/6/2006 http://twitter.com/shellen... I think if you used it when it was 'twttr' you're an early adopter. - Jason Shellen

December 21, 2007. I consider myself a late Twitter bloomer. - Mike Reynolds

March 14th, 2008. Hooray, I haven't been completely ruled out as interesting based on an arbitrary date of account creation! - Mark Trapp from Alert Thingy

December 8, 2006 for me. - Allen Hutchison

March, 2007 for me; but I didn't know what to do with it. Early, yes. Adopter? Not until recently. - Tom Landini

February 22 2007 - does that put me in the early adopter category? - Steven Hodson

March 2007 but same experience as Tom L. - Morgan from twhirl

Looks like I joined in late March of 2007. I think it was a discussion about Scoble and Calacanis in TWiT 91 that made me curious. I used it for about a week then dropped off until November. My use was kinda sporadic until March of this year, when it started making news again. (That, and it was around that time when I finally got my wife interested, that way I'd have at least one follower.) - Jeremiah Palmer

April 07, 2007 - of course I didn't actually start using it until early 2008, but at least I was on and trying it out. I didn't think it was a viable community until people I cared about were on it. - Nick Malaguti

Feb 2007, and have tried several times to give it up. - Pete Gilbert from Alert Thingy

July 30, 2007. It said I was leaving Pownce for Twitter. Funny. - Vince DeGeorge

august 07 right after my birthday, I like to that twitter was my present - Dobromir Hadzhiev from twhirl