The nature of FriendFeed is that you start to think that the world is like you, because your friends shape your FF world. I think the FF world is full of Obama supporters, and other people thing it's full of Twitterers. Pick your friends wisely because they define your FF.
In other words, when you complain about the content of FriendFeed, you're really complaining about your choice of friends. ;-) (the wink means I'm half-kidding. Well, 46% kidding anyhow.)
- Kevin Fox
Well put. I read an article that i believe was posted by a friend of yours Kevin, and it talked about how FriendFeed was all Twitter and only existed for Twitter. I was reading it and thinking - yeah, there is some Twitter in the mix, but if Twitter stopped being supported I doubt I would even notice.
- Rachel Lea Fox
i caught myself thinking that last night. i was like, wow, everyone on here is for obama, too. and then i was like, wait a minute...
- edythe
I refuse to take responsibility. I blame my friends.
- Cyrus Lendvay
Scoble says "you are who you follow". It's no surprise that most of us want to be surrounded by and influenced by people who agree with us and like the same things we do.
- Louis Gray
I have noticed that the people I follow and the people who follow me are all universally smart, interesting, and good-looking.
- ha3rvey (doink doink)
thats why i surround myself with people i know will generate good content
- Tyler Gillies
I prefer "you are what you post" -- but Scoble may be right
- Brian Sullivan
I dont blame anybody now, "Hide" feature is at my rescue!! :)
- Jigar Mehta
"if everybody thinks the same thing then no one is thinking" the Internet allows us to essentially create an individual channell customized to our beliefs and reinforcing them along the way. In a way it is the inverse result of Marx's thoughts the social cphesion will be lost be specialization.
- RAPatton
Subscribing* to people you disagree with may broaden the horizon. (*Subscribe, not befriend, right? The interface doesn't seem to talk about a friend status, despite the site's title...)
- Philipp Lenssen
@Philipp,there is the "friend of" status
- Tyler Gillies
Hey, we're ALL friends here, no? You can tell from the lack of public flames.
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
Besides, "thepostsandsocialnetworkingpresencesofpeopleIfindinterestingandthepeopletheyfindinterestingfeed.com" doesn't trip off the tongue so easily.
- Slippy "Threadsbane" Lane
I think it is fascinating that friendfeed is a unique experience for everybody. Makes it such a compelling challenge from a developer's perspective, I presume.
- David Vasileff
this is one reason I like my collection of delicious friends - they are less like each other than I would expect
- Edward Vielmetti
also, my friendfeed feed is full of friends talking about friendfeed. cut it with the self-reference people, go out and do something.
- Edward Vielmetti
remember when all people talked about was blogging... oh wait..
- Stefan Hayden
Actually 'choosing your friends carefully' is perfectly valid in any network or even life. Phew.
- bvs