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You know what? I'm starting to like Facebook. The trick? Delete everyone. :-)
Ozer Wrzl (EN), Ryan Mahar, Tyler Ham and 58 other people liked this
it's hard getting used to the slow pace over there.
- michael sean wright
No more super pokes that way!
- Robert Scoble
Although I hate Facebook, I probably could live in a FB environment consisting of me and nobody.
- Sebastian
You seem crankier lately... ;)
- Scott Paley
can't you just not accept the superpoke app?
- John Wang
Scott: I think I'm getting more elitist and cranky, yes. I even feel a blog post or two welling up inside me! ;-)
- Robert Scoble
Including yourself LOL <Delete everyone. :-)>
- Lora Lufark
Wow, full circle!
- Scott Paley
But... You miss the best fun! Ignoring app invites
- Kristian Salonen
Actually, it would be nice if you could configure FB to only allow for things you approve of. For example, I don't want quizzes or pokes...
- Scott Paley
John: I'm just kidding (mostly) about the superpokes. The real advantage of deleting most people is your news feed gets enjoyable again!
- Robert Scoble
Robert: How many FB friends are you down to?
- Scott Paley
Scoble: If you delete everyone, who do you get yours news from?
- Manuel Mas
Isn't it better to just read a list of the people you care about it?
- Manuel Mas
I went and did some Spring-cleaning there when everyone decided the sky was falling here. Deleted a dozen or so apps, and clicked Hide->Hide [app-name] on a few that my friends were still using. Now I have a stream over there that has almost nothing but my friends posts, links, photos and comments. It's a bit like FriendFeed, except people I actually know from offline use it.
- Edward Coffey
If you used the Fan Page like FriendFeed, then it's pretty close, except for RT updates. But regular guys can't friend your user page unless you return the friend acceptance. And I see that you really don't want all that noise from listeners. So you need to use the Fan Page instead of your personal page for public conversations. The ability to choose your subscriptions, independently...
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- Keith Rowland
Keith. Yes, I have two pages.
- Robert Scoble
it's funny Scoble has gone from adding everybody to being a social network of one
- Bastard Operator From FF
Manuel: I'm not actually deleting everyone, but it sure seems that way. Already I've deleted manually about 9,000 people. Not a fun job at all.
- Robert Scoble
My mom told me that geeks are antisocial ;-)
- Sebastian
people are going to start saying "Robert doesn't want to be friends with me anymore." :(
- John Wang
John: yeah, except FriendFeed is going to remain my place to interact with a large number of people. Twitter is going to stay clean. Facebook is for people I've hung out with in real life.
- Robert Scoble
So everything ends up in FriendFeed. IOW all the other services are obsolete. Right?
- Sebastian
I only use Facebook for close friends, and it works pretty well for that.
- Rob Fisher
OK Robert, so should we not bother with your Facebook Fan Page? You just using FB for your personal friends?
- Keith Rowland
I'm down to 2450 friends and still deleting. So I've deleted more than half (and I already went through 5,500 who couldn't get into my friend account and deleted most of those too).
- Robert Scoble
You're deleting these from your personal FB account, not your fan page?
- Keith Rowland
The page I see for RS on FB has over 10,000 fans.
- Keith Rowland
None of the people I know on Facebook is also on Friendfeed, it is like two completely different worlds
- Asgeir
Asgeir, yeah me too, it seems all my family and church friends are non-geeks. Which means of course I'm the go to guy when technology fails.
- Keith Rowland
Keith: right. My fan page at http://www.facebook.com/scoblei... is open to everyone. I'll start updating that, but I'm specifically talking about my Facebook profile at http://www.facebook.com/roberts...
- Robert Scoble
Keith, same here :) Every time I am visiting family or a friend there is usually something that needs fixing
- Asgeir
I'm a huge Facebook fan for keeping in touch with friends & family. It's good for that.
- Alex Knight
Robert you got the personal profile page locked up pretty good, can't even get to it, just reverts back to my home page.
- Keith Rowland
Keith: according to my settings it's open to everyone. All settings set to as open as possible. Weird.
- Robert Scoble
Now it's working, I swear it didn't :-)
- Keith Rowland
It comes up fine now, so I'll leave you to your pruning process. I'm not a personal friend, so I'll just watch the Fan Page. BTW, loved the impromptu interview with Paul, thanks for that! I feel a little safer investing time here on FF.
- Keith Rowland
I'll do the same to see if I begin to like it too.
- Caio Cesar
Can I add you? <;o)
- sofarsoShawn
Robert, you could just delete all your game apps... Which of course, you already know. I can see the benefit of deleting people from your Twitter account, but since FB is a closed system, I don't see the benefit of deleting people from your Facebook.
- Mark Davidson
from BuddyFeed
Robert's new answer to everything is delete delete delete.
- Rob Cairns
Ughh, are you sure you're not on FriendFeed's payroll, what happened to your "Roach Motel" analysis we all know Facebook sucks.
- sofarsoShawn
sofarsoShawn: Facebook still sucks for people like me who want to be totally public but they are opening up. That has nothing to do with my shift in how I am approaching these things, though.
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Oh great the FaceBook unfollowing saga begins Maybe they will ave to sell to shut you up LOL
- RetiredTeacherD
Scoble so by deleting everyone and isolating yourself in a social network is the answer? NO. Could you please explain where your approach comes from, I'm confused or are you just joking?
- sofarsoShawn
I'm a fan of the "add 98% of your friends to a list and then disallow that list from seeing frickin' anything" approach.
- Brett Kelly
from iPhone
Brett, can you use lists to affect the visibility of newsfeed items? I thought I saw something in the RWW facebook guide that said you could only use them to control the visibility of parts of your profile. Maybe I just got the wrong impression. I'm going to have to explore Facebook someday.
- Bruce Lewis
FB has gone bad I'd rather goto brightkite
- Ray H
I have never accepted a friend request from stranger on my Facebook right from the beginning i made the account. FB is for my relatives only. Friendfeed is more open,, in fact i have no "real" friend here. i like it;p
- zʍıɔ
First Twitter, then Facebook. The great Robert Scoble unfollow saga continues... Me, I've been accepting friend requests from FF people (I always request they tell me they're from FF so I know). I have 4 separate groups for friends, FF people, and both sides of my family. But I'm nowhere near overwhelmed...
- Dennis Jernberg
I don't presume to add someone in Facebook (or LinkedIn) that I don't know IRL unless the person specifically encourages people to add him/her on that service. For example, Chris Brogan and I are linked on LinkedIn, but I'd never presume to ask him for a recommendation.
- John E. Bredehoft
So it's the return of the Great Unfollow.
- Morton Fox
Doing that on FriendFeed. Sick of the self important, self promoting spammers here.
- guruvan (Rob Nelson)
You can block apps like superpoke from contacting you... That doesn't bother me too much. It's the quiz app that can't be blocked, because it's really an app generator. Every new quiz becomes its own facebook app automatically, and you can't block them all. Annoying, that is...
- Otto
from iPhone
It's more than deleting everyone, deleting all the FB features would help too. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
why do u think so ? facebook is so enjoyable . the more the merior ;) just try to like it the way it is
- Viva Vida
Lists (feed) filter the noise and deliver specific news on family, co-workers, industry contacts, vendors, etc
- Susan Beebe
Robert, is Facebook having connection problems this morning?
- Shari Weiss
You may look back on this purging of human capital as the darkest day of your social life. How many people did you alienate in one day? Must be a record of some kind! Congratulations! Sorry you will no longer be privy to my astute insights back at the mothership. It would have been better to be more selective to begin with, but alas, you were bombarded with requests. The price of fame, I suppose. Cheers!
- david beckwith
Social media without people....hmmmmm this is a different concept or approch and I wonder what the benefits are. Anyone care to share?
- Jeunelle Foster
Jeunelle. No spam. No noise. No trolls. No SEO experts. Lots of benefits!
- Robert Scoble
from iPhone
Ahhh well in that case I'm all for it, besides the people that I have in my friendlist now at FB I can't stand. lol :)
- Jeunelle Foster
I'm still trying to find my one home on the web. Sometimes it's FB, sometimes it's Twitter, sometimes it's FF.
- Adam
Exactly why can't someone create 1 with the positive benefits of all 3?
- Jeunelle Foster
Instead of having to go to the 50 or so social networks I'm a member of, I want those networks to come to me. I want a single page (my blog or home page) I can host myself, working in both directions. Yes, I can pull things, using rss feeds or widgets, and I can push things, using services such as ping.fm, but I want all that to happen "at home". I want things people post elsewhere,...
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- Irma Vermaat
I leave the games up & ignore my 812 pending requests. Sometimes it is cool to throw sheep or play tic-tac-toe with an old college classmate (who's now a history professor), and an occassional event is cool (although nowhere near as nice as tribe.net). It's REALLY easy to ignore requests.
- Mitchell Tsai
Bruce - You can include/exclude individual people from your News Feed. Works very well for prolific people who post stuff that doesn't interest me 99% of the time. Possible strategy (which I don't use) (1) friend everyone who asks (2) put "followers" in a "don't appear on my NewsFeed" group. I like to see everyone on my NewsFeed. How else will I get to know new people?
- Mitchell Tsai
I make everything on my page public - except my home phone (friends only). Luckily, I don't have a boss or corporation or sticky political situation to navigate. I consider anything Facebook/FriendFeed-private-room/LinkedIn/web potentially public info. Anything private should be over the phone or in person (and even the phone is scanned for keywords). Even an e-mail that says "let's...
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- Mitchell Tsai
Mitchell, that sounds useful, but what I really was curious about was restricting visibility of my own items. On FriendFeed I put tech stuff on my home feed for public consumption, but family doings are in a private group. I'd like to use FB the same way if possible. As for getting to know new people, on FF I have a "followers" group that I check every so often, while keeping the noise level on my home feed tolerable.
- Bruce Lewis
Bruce - Sound like the two users (if you don't get caught by Facebook) approach is cool - It's been proposed as "alternate personas" (maybe Bruce Lewis & Bruce X Lewis) - one of my friends Brian Tung also went as Byron Tung (tribute to Byron the writer). A fan page is another possibility, but not everyone at Facebook has fan pages, so it doesn't work as well as FriendFeed's one-directional links.
- Mitchell Tsai
I made a "Chat" group, and only added a few friends that I don't mind chatting with. Then, I configured chat to only show that list....the upside? Everyone else sees me as offline. Simple but effective!
- shaun mclane
I merely created a second "personal" profile. That way I can keep my 5000 followers. Only actual friends will be added to my personal profile. Is that a violation of the terms of service?
- Leo Laporte
Delete everyone, and block the annoying applications from appearing in your news stream. Agreed.
- Steve Lynch
from twhirl
Even better: Come to FF and complain about how terrible it is to have your news stream flooded with stuff from friends. So terrible.
- Fleagle
Could Wordpress Be the Natural Successor to Twitter, Friendfeed and Facebook? - http://siliconangle.com/ver2... (via Louis Gray: http://friendfeed.com/louisgr...)
Amir, Dobromir Hadzhiev, Demetrios the Traveller and 7 other people liked this
From the article:"There are dozens of lifestreaming platforms emerging, and everyone seems ready to dub sites like Tumblr or Posterous as the natural successors to Friendfeed. They might be, in the interim, but they have the same potential to fall by the wayside that Friendfeed and Twitter have. Wordpress, on the other hand, is a widely supported and completely open source tool. Neophytes and true codehackers alike love it." - yes, why we did not think about it earlier...? ;)
- Hanna Wiszniewska
I like usin worpress for my blog which you may have seen there http://chrisbellinger.wordpress.com/
- Chris Bellinger
Yes, Chris - I visited your blog - have you ever considered self-hosted version of Wordpress...? It gives many possibilities :)
- Hanna Wiszniewska
I'm using Wordpress for many years on my homepage...the problem is that it is not interconnected.
- Alexander Kruel
Though I agree that it would be great to leave all those services and use an open-source platform like Wordpress...
- Alexander Kruel
I agree, Alexander that there is a problem here with interconnections - my modest blog (all the time "under-construction") is also based on Wordpress and I am trying to make it "interconncted" but it is not enough (although there are some plugins - they do not have functionality we need). That is why I have some hopes for Google Wave (especially if it will be really Open Sourced...)....
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- Hanna Wiszniewska
I don't think so!
- Demetrios the Traveller
Google Wave looks really promising indeed. I like how you can include photos and create dynamic documents etc. :-)
- Alexander Kruel
Demetrios: well, I have my doubts, too - but it's nice to have the hope ;) Alexander: yeps - I saw the video and was really impressed - besides - I really admire the guys who are developing it... :)
- Hanna Wiszniewska
The problem is that it will be so long before we can use it :(
- Alexander Kruel
Alexander - not so long - first "waves" are to come at the end of September... :-) (hope, I will get my invitation...)
- Hanna Wiszniewska
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