This is called Stripe Lining in sales. Let's see who bites. - Elisa

oi vay, this must get at least 100 comments; carries some weight given your FF rock star status as you note; you're obviously not expecting an Xmas present from your FF buddies this year, looking forward to seeing their retort... - Bob Sonin

the problem with twitter is that it's an addiction. Just when I think that I am out, it pulls me back in. It's the simplicity. I primarily use FF, but twitter fills in the gaps. There is a place for both, but more people should jump into FF. Although my wife is still unsure of twitter, so I have my work cut out for me. How bout that post Robert? "10 reasons why email/SMS is for you and twitter is not." :-) - Bob Blunk

The complexity is what gets me, but really only between Friend Feed and Twitter. There's a feature to autopost to twitter here on ff, and I turned it on and forgot. All of a sudden I've got like a million tweets about my last.fm and google reader stuff. Not to mention that a post direct to twitter went circular. - adam garrett

hilarious! - Jeff (the マクダジ of FF)

I just spent a little time watching your real-time feed. Clearly, I cannot follow anywhere near as many people as you do. I get lost in the flood of data. - DGentry

Because, of course, more features makes a service better. Right? ;-) - Brent Newhall

I loved this line: "You can’t handle that, which is why Twitter is for you. Any service that has a tutorial on how to use a feature is just not for you." - Daniel J. Pritchett

HA! Great reading, Scoble. I lol'ed. Seriously, I did. - Jandy, ConcertMaven of FF

my fave "d. You can “Comment” on an item. Here’s my comments. More than 6,000 of them. You really don’t want that kind of distraction. You might have to participate and that wouldn’t be good." - ernie yacub

6. How to DM on friendfeed: http://friendfeed.com/e... otherwise, good post. Funny. - ·[▪_▪]·

Scoble already stated in a previous post that DM'ing sucks, anyway. I don't think a service is going to implement full email-like features when that's not even the point of the service. People can just use email or IM. - Rahsheen ™, Coach Rah

lol - David Cook

My point wasn't about the merits of DMing, just that it's possible in friendfeed, but it's the friendfeed way. - ·[▪_▪]·

I love this ... where's Dave Winer? hahahaha! - Susan Beebe

It took me a second but good read Schoble. - Nation Hahn

It slays me when people say Friendfeed is more complicated than Twitter. Investing maybe half an hour in setting up Friendfeed *the way I like it* made it highly usable and simple for me. There is nothing I can do to Twitter to make it useful for me except investigate third-party apps and I don't have the patience for that. - Laura Norvig

I like how twitter reminds me of birds tweet tweet #11 - sofarsoShawn

I can't help but love this post, but I do still tend to agree with some others that Robert is a tad too belittling at times. Most of the time I'd just say "man the f*ck up," but in this case it's actually a little confusing as to why Robert is so condescending at points. - Tyler Hayes from twhirl

Funny sarcastic post. Gets the point across. Note: in that tutorial, please explain what a 'meme' is b/c it took me 2-3 weeks to figure that out. (**I have no problems admitting my huge learning curve!!**) - Amani

Those are all good reasons, largely narrowing down to Twitter is >SHOCK< simpler than FF. Which is excellent. They both rock for their own reasons. - Clay Newton

#11 FriendFeed won't let you change your background image. You love that on Twitter you can put links to your blog, linkedin, etc., in an image instead of tempting them to navigate to there with a real link or distracting them with your superfluous activity from those places. - Daniel Sims

These are all good reasons... but still. I have met many people that just don't get Twitter. They shout out in space and wait for people to hear them.. - noone does... after a few days/weeks they think its lame and leave never to return. As soon as you understand RSS, Friendfeed its all simple... but the main reason I vote for FF mainstream attraction is the threaded conversations. Everyone can enter "Best of day" and instantly be part of a conversation with others without feeling as an outsider. - Peter Efland

Summing up.... the tech aspect of FF might be more tricky, but I think the social aspect is easier to get for newbies. - Peter Efland

So much sarcasm bundled up into one post. Gotta love it. "...why Twitter is for you and FF isn't" http://is.gd/aFOl (via @scobleizer) - Chinkerfly

Do you agree with Robert that FriendFeed is way too complicated for most social media users? ;-) - Ben Watson from twhirl

FriendFeed has layer upon layer of usefulness. I've been using it a *lot* for the last few months and I still learn new things now and then. Once people start using FF there's often an 'a ha!' moment and then things pick up. - Daniel J. Pritchett

That's just the reason why FF is for me and not Twitter - Uwe Schwarz

I don't actually get Twitter, I use it,but only to simultaneously feed into FB and FF.. (espcially wihen I'm mobile). I rarely hit the site to read since the ppl that I want to follow also feed into FB which I find much more my cup o tea. - Kelly W.

I still like using both... FF is my place you can find and read everything and twitter is more like a notification service of my online and other activities. - tomit

Alright, I laughed : ) but I'm not sure this was such a great idea. - Jeremy

I love the twist on this article. We need more people falling in love with FriendFeed. More people = more variety of content. As of now, it's too tech centric. I think as more people grow more comfortable with 'feeds' this service will go mainstream. Right now, people are just getting the value of commenting in Facebook. I think that's funny. :/ - Patrickometry