This is one reason why Facebook doesn't work for me the way FriendFeed does. It'll be interesting to see how this is fixed now that the two will be joining. - Robert Scoble

Conversations was the main reason for me to join friendfeed. - ashish

It's impossible: you cannot mix FB friends with FF friends. Unless you create a "FF Room" in FB and import all your FF contacts there, and keep it private. But it's way too complicated, don't you think? - Jordi Soler

Jordi: yes. Too complicated. But now that we'll be rolled in there, that leaves opportunities for innovation. - Robert Scoble

Robert most of my FB friend's do not give a shit about wether the new Mac tablet is subsidised with 3g carriers, or that on TWiT last week Leo talked about new HD cameras coming for his studio. Friendfeed is geeky, and i don't want it to be part of Facebook! - Mark

Anyway, IF FF disappears in its actual form (which I doubt), I'm rooting for a.tinythread.com. Their timing was excellent. - Jordi Soler

@Mark you will get new friend lol (my first lol I swear) the situation inspire me a family that change a location and where kids are crying, they don't want to leave they don't want to loose their friend, all this is a kind of magic. - abdellah

What I suspect will happen will be that there will be a "Facebook Conversations" area, which is much like the current FF - public conversations on a wide range of topics, but reskinned to fit the rest of Facebook. Groups functionality will transfer fairly easily. And everything - public and private streams - will have the FF real time engine and search capabilities underneath it. - Ian Betteridge

Last night Paul from FF.com staff said "Obviously I can't provide a lot of detailed plans and guarantees, but I can tell you that I'll do my personal best to ensure that the FriendFeed users and community are treated right. I love this product too, and don't want to see it disappear." - Mark

Robert, this is why Facebook will be never like Twitter and FriendFeed, they will run into a huge PR nightmare if they make all updates "public". Most of the people are on FB because they like the privacy options. I don't see FB leveraging much of the real time search... Seriously? Even if they - How will they make money? - Raj

Well, I was just starting to use FF 'cause most of my friendster at FB are either family, former coworkers or classmates and they all share distinct discussion interests; I was just discovering how cool is to have instant and simultaneous discussion possibilities ranging from what's the best chic shot on flickr today up to what would be a good Business intelligence strategy for a medium size company all knowing that the thread would remain top as the discusion go by for those interested; let's hope FB would save that richness and for the record I regard twitter as a damn cool get going gossip but I get lost on following the threads from my phone. - Marco ILLESCAS from iPhone

The future for Facebook is what they did with the CNN Election page. That was a CNN hosted page with Facebook widgets and Facebook community. FF will help them with that. - Leo Laporte

Facebook can never be a FF replacement for me. On FB, I have family members, relatives, co-workers and people I went to church with. On other social media sites I can be more myself, vent and talk about subjects I'm not comfortable discussing with those other groups of people. - Travis Owen

I completely agree... I have a lot of non-techie friends and slowly they join Twitter, although they don't know why. We've had lots of great conversations in Facebook, but they are personal conversations. They're my friends, we're having conversations among friends. Nothing I expect would be very interesting to the public in general. Twitter, however, is public interaction with people who share common interests, but I don't really know.... Maybe Friendfeed will bring that to Facebook, but I'm not sure if I want it there. Oftentimes I put stuff on Twitter I don't want on Facebook, and vice versa. - Art Stanton

I have my FB open to everyone. I dont understand why people would want to post on a social site but lock it down to only a few people. - MikeDeal / ZoneDancer

Because alot of people put personal photos on of themselves and kids etc they don't want us to see - Mark

I couldn't agree more. Facebook just isn't good for work conversations. FF is wonderful for watching and commenting on what people are talking about. Mark Z, please don't close down FF. - Leigh Marriner

My issue is more that Facebook and Friendfeed/Twitter are just so different as communities. The subject matter is different, the pace is different, and the audience is different. Heck, there are friends of my parents on there. How many times do you want to know what your Friend bought on Mafia Wars? - chipmason

If and when the two join. I quite honestly see FB simply absorbing the search and sharing capabilities of FF but not swarming its users with the firehose. It'd be suidide. Even if they put all sorts of filters in place, 90% of FB users won't be able to deal with that, complain, and leave. They'll go back to email and we're stuck with a whale of a social network we can't use. - Nils Geylen

Mark, Paul won't really have a say on it anymore. His team will be put on higher priority projects and that will be that. This is how it works. - Todd Hoff

I like Ian Betteridge's idea of a "Facebook Conversations" area. That would be the best way to bring Twitter/FF-style conversations, search, discovery and networking to Facebook. The original Facebook can still be solidly grounded in real-life (with mutual friendships, and private sharing of information) while the Facebook Conversations are can be true "cyberspace". - Meryn Stol

Everyone seems to be assuming the two platforms are going to be rolled into one. Is that going to happen? Can that ever happen successfully? You can't have this kind of conversation on Facebook as it is now and it's difficult to imagine you ever could without substantial changes to the site. - Gilbert Harding

Nils you're a pessimist the FF coders and MZ are the best in the world they won't *uck it up give them more credit than that - Thomas Power

It is really disturbing to watch FB mixing your personal life with your business life or interests. As I can see, the first reaction of many users on FF was like that. Hope it works our well for everyone on FF. - Rabia Sozkesen

Thomas, I hope the talent will prevail, and that FF will indeed be a FB Labs of some sort. But just like the majority here I'm skeptical (okay, not pessimistic) about integrating the two communities. - Nils Geylen

If FF will add better search capability to FB then that would be good - Lee Kent

"Most of my friends on Facebook are there not to share industry or work news, but to push pictures of their kids or talk about their personal lives. That’s fine, that’s why I like Facebook, but why it’s horrid for having industry or work conversations." Yeah, I hope that Paul and Bret get that. I don't use Facebook to promote my industry work. I used Facebook to connect with old school friends, family members, and people who don't give a damn. If you're going to allow FriendFeed integration, keep this site intact. - Tamar Weinberg

Agreed with Tamara. FF straight-up seems to have a solid focus on that industry/work--it feels more substantial. IMHO, it's substance over form and flash (even though watching the feeds pour in is one heck of a marvel). - Rob Schieber

It's two totally different paradigms of interaction, for two mindsets. Usually the acquired gets assimilated, not the other way. Though, FF have released for example the "comment at the bottom" feature after they got acquired. All is not lost? - Rick Cogley