For sure. Facebook has replaced my time here. weird, I know. - Jason Kintzler

@Jason me too. - Steve Rubel

same here. twitter was more easily digestible and less time demanding after all.. - George Tziralis

Yep - I was never a ff power user, but realized just yesterday that I hadn't looked at it in weeks. - jeremy ettinghausen

Too much engineering not enough design/usability. - Florian

Florian, you think usability of Facebook is higher? In what respect? - Meryn Stol

Steve, what do you talk about on Facebook? Any interesting discussions? - Meryn Stol

The conversations are better here. Engagement levels will always go up and down. - Robert Scoble

Robert's right. Most people go through cycles of activity. - Akiva

I'm really curious if there's ever some interesting conversation on Facebook. I never had "tech" friends there. - Meryn Stol

Agree with Robert. FF use goes up and down for me depending on what else I'm working on. I hardly use Facebook. FF gives far more interaction for me. - Kol Tregaskes

I've had both design discussions and technical discussions on Facebook. No idea what my family and old high school friends think of those... - Jason Wehmhoener

Meryn: yes, there is, but it is all private. If you don't have the right friends you are locked out. Friendfeed is a much better place to be open. - Robert Scoble

Friendfeed is quite a time investment. It's there for the broader conversation, which is nice, unfortunately, I usually only have enough time for the shorter one...on twitter. - timedalkat from twhirl

I'm in the rinse cycle - Josh Haley

I spend the most time on FF on my iPhone, sitting in the bar at work supervising. When business is slow, I'm more active. - Robert Hafer

Robert, I think that because of conversations I had on FriendFeed, I might have a chance of "friending" you and others on Facebook. Oh, the irony. :) Still, if I can befriend only FF regulars on Facebook, it's not very useful. I could as well talk to them on FF. - Meryn Stol

The Facebook iPhone app isn't as easy to use IMO, when I'm at my desk it usually means I have bookkeeping to do and less time for social networks. - Robert Hafer

Actually higher this week than prior weeks. It's a week by week thing. - LPH™ and his dog P™

I feel like I'm living on Friendfeed lately. - Louis Simoneau

Mine is up again. I do have time for it. But in a way I'm a bit dissappointed about the amount of reactions people give on one another. If you're already a big name, people react (like I do now ;-)), but otherwise they stay quite. - Ton Zijp

Just the opposite. I leave Facebook open a lot so people can IM me but most conversations happen on FF. Friendfeed is becoming more and more integrated into my daily work flow. - Rick Bucich

My FF usage is also way down. I've been sleeping more. - MiniMage, enterRUPPted

The weather outside is getting delightful, baseball season's about to start, it's good to get away from the computer, imho. - .LAG liked that

Facebook is for friends - tennis, book group; normal people - and family - friendfeed is for technology. - Auntie Buttinsky Botts

"normal people" :) - Meryn Stol

For the most part FF is a waste of time. There are interesting stories and pics to discover though. - Jeremy Campbell from twhirl

More friends are talking with me through Facebook since the new Friendfeed-like front end was introduced - Pat Kitano

My only complaint so far about FF is that it's difficult to find friends who aren't solely interested in social media, startups, and interwebby-techiness. When I find someone on FF who actually posts about a VARIETY of topics rather than just the latest news on Twitter/FriendFeed/Facebook/etc, I'll usually subscribe to their feed outright. - Ryan Garns

@ryan: I find searching for rooms on other topics that interest me and then browsing through the members is a good way of finding people talking about things other than twitter etc. - Louis Simoneau

We're here, Ryan. Maybe we just don't make enough noise. ;) - Jack&Cleo

My time on many things is down at the moment due to a mixture of work and some interesting side projects... - Andy Davies

me too... see same stories multiple times a day i login. It doesn't keep track of what I've read and what I haven't. - Sumit Chachra

I guess I experienced this emotion 6 months ago. I was spending 4 hrs or more per day on FF and without me even knowing that stopped happening. Because a lot of value of FF was overlapping with google reader, blogs, twitter, FB etc. I just went back to splitting my time between those services. It seems like to me that humans want separate spaces to experience / participate in fundamentally different things. Hence there is not much "natural or un-conscious" value of bringing every thing at one place.. - sameer guglani

Just to followup - I have also stopped going to FF after the new re-design. They seem to loosing identity - sameer guglani

Great conversation here. I've been a FF user a while however; I've only recently been using more and more. FB got to a point of annoyance for me with all the stuff people send you. I'm finding more engaged conversation here on FF and Twitter yet, FF is much easier to track conversation thread. True it is more difficult to find people on FF but, I think I will reach out to everyone on this thread but, it would be nice to have the capability to create "interest tags" & FF recommend people. - Jason Cronkhite

I personally would love one place to manage conversations in multiple web spaces/communities. - Jason Cronkhite

Ryan there are lots of people who don't just talk tech. If I wasn't so lazy I would look up all their usernames ... Rahsheen, Akiva, Rochelle, Tad, Lindsay, Lindsey, Mona, Alex Scoble - pretty much everyone who is into the ffundercats: Johnny Worthington, Josh Haley, Mark Wilson ... - Laura Norvig

I spend a lot more time than I used to on friendfeed, I find the community here is still more active. It's also more advanced. It's what I would like Jaiku to have become. - Richard A.

Same here - 2009 has been a crazy, busy year for me - much less time on the interwebs - Susan Beebe

yeah, been busy with that thing called real life - Dobromir Hadzhiev

Yeah, me too, you can kinda tell when I am not working full-time if usage spikes up :-) - mandyvan

Me too. Switch laptops, work had me running ragged. Nothing setup on lappy. And when I said work ran me (us - team operation) we drove about 20,000 miles this month. - Robert Couture

Friendfeed needs to begin working on recommendative filtering. Interestingness is only the first step (best of day etc). The work that the folks at flexpore are doing with the Flickr API is what I'd be looking at. What/who you like/comment and how can they analyze who likes/comment on similar items and how they can better filter their simple interestingness/best of day algorithm better for you personally. Enough content is here now. It's all about better finding it next -- well, that and search. - Thomas Hawk

Thomas - good idea :) - Susan Beebe

on FF is very difficult have a discussion if u are "unknown" (or not a blogger)... so i prefer twitter.. it's much more simple,faster and easyir have INTERACTION!! :) - alby

Defining the right set of friends on FriendFeed is a great way to filter news. Thus, my FriendFeed time is time well spent. Saves me time actually. - Mike Reynolds

I go in spikes. I think I'm fading a little, then I go on an FF bender for a night. - Kamilah Reed (K. Gill)

My time on FriendFeed is still robust, but more focused. I spend a lot more time on my professionally-oriented List ("Enterprise 2.0"). So often I'll miss the memes that happen during the day. The funny thing is that those e2.0 folks don't spend a lot of time interacting here, so it can be a bit one-sided. But as a tracking tool, I'm getting more value than ever from FriendFeed. - Hutch Carpenter

I spend most of my time on Twitter nowadays. But I attribute that to the usefulness of TweetDeck. - Winston Teo

Like a pendulum, I change between FF and twitter , increasing the last one by simplicity - Juan Carlos Sánchez

Being a newbie, i'm not!! my bandwidth is done for, so i gotta wait till the next month to become active =) - Praveen Vasudev

ditto - anna sauce

I haven't been on Friendfeed very much because I've been looking for work. - Sullivan