Story of my life. :D - Steven Perez from IM

Oh really, Perez Hilton's cousin...I mean Steven Perez. ;) - Shevonne

OH, I SEE HOW IT IS. :D - Steven Perez from IM

I am NOT liking this post! - Vicarbott

GOOD! I DON'T WANT ANY LIKES, GORRAMIT! :D - Steven Perez from IM

And that is why you will never be a WINNAH. :) - ha3rvey (likes fritos) from fftogo

I get those days every week, Glen. Of course, since I usually post 50 items a day and half of them get no notice at all, I've learned to increase the volume and take it in stride. - Steven Perez from IM

Ha3rvey: If by WINNAH you mean NON-CILANTRO-EATING-WHINER, then GUILTY AS CHARGED! :D - Steven Perez from IM

Glen... that about sums it up for me. - Vicarbott

Right, but if you never got any likes or comments, wouldn't you feel like you were just talking to yourself, and thus wasting your time? I think I would. - Joey Gibson

GOOD, CUZ I R NOT A BUNNEH, NO MATTER WHAT TINA SAYS! - Steven Perez from IM

Joey: given that I usually end up talking to myself, that would just be status quo ante. And if I ever thought that I was wasting my time, well, there's always video games. They understand my needs. :) - Steven Perez from IM

Glen I think it has something to do with how posts are presented. I'll see a name on a like and get to thinking that I haven't seen them for a while, go look at their threads and things there's a lot of good stuff there that I never saw. That's why I don't think FF style will ever replace a reader. What you are shown is such a small random sample of what's actually posted. - Todd Hoff

This does ring a little false though -- if you want to share information and start conversations you must be interested in getting likes (indicating that there was someone interested in receiving what you shared -- after all sharing requires a sharer and and a sharee) and/or comments (which is indication of a conversation). I find this especially disingenuous coming from somebody whose posts often receive a large number of likes and comments. - Brian Sullivan

Brian: not at all. I'd post whether or not my threads received any attention at all. The fact that I can have a conversation over what I post only adds to the experience. I think that the inordinate worrying about who is being liked is a fool's game best left to those whose cash flow depends on such things. In other words, I'm just here for the LOLz; anything else above and beyond that is gravy. - Steven Perez from IM

And just for the record, when I first dropped into here, I had the same problem that I constantly see posted about: no one paid any attention to my posts. Which was fine, because I knew that, if I wanted attention, I would have to give it. - Steven Perez from IM

I think the growth here in the last year has dulled the experience somewhat, though. I'm subbed to over 1,000 different folks, and it's difficult, if not downright impossible, to check out everyone's stuff. I think the best one can hope for is to find a cluster of folks who like to share with each other and expand from there. Personally, I'm not a big into cliques, but that's the problem with such growth. - Steven Perez from IM

I kinda look at it as I would like being in high school - you might know a slew of people and be "friends" with many of them (especially if you went to my high school in Houston, where my graduating class was 900 people), but you always gravitate towards a small select number of people to hang around with. You might not know what's going on with anyone else, but you know what's going on in your circle of friends. ... Of course, I hated high school, so maybe that's not the greatest analogy in the world, but it's probably the most apt. - Steven Perez from IM

We were just talking about this the other day, the sort of weird needy popularity contest with a large group of people, mostly in tech. I don't get it either, but if it is apparently this fulfilling to those who do it, I say live and let live. - Patricia

It's amazing how often I hit the Best of Day and missed so much. That used to be a repeat spot, I would have seen everything. I love to like, but some have to understand when we miss their super-cool posts. - Eric

You know, Steven, knowing the kinds of things you tend to post, I usually do read a page or two of your feed at least once a day (when I'm online). It can feel goofy, when you're on one person's thread, to go down the list [Like]ing everything, or being the first to leave a comment; it makes me feel like a stalker. :-) And often, I find myself overwhelmed by the news, and just don't have anything to say, at least, not right away. Sometimes I come back to say something; sometimes I don't. Keep it up! - Ladyepiphanybug

That's pretty much my modus operandi on FriendFeed now, Heather: go down a list of people I haven't checked on in a while, and like what stuff I like in their feeds. STALKERS OF FF, UNITE! :D - Steven Perez from IM