I wish there was a AIR client for FF though. - barl0w

Twhirl works well for FF and it's an AIR client. - Bob M. Montgomery from twhirl

Great article. I want to learn more about the dumping the RSS feeder part. You should share some tips with that. Good stuff. - Amani

Love seeing FF through the eyes of someone who's not a traditional techie =) - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Thanks Bob! - barl0w

A big part of why I wrote this post and have it running in my number one photo spot on Flickr right now is because I want more of my photography friends to sign up for the service. I *love* seeing photos here on FriendFeed and there are so many talented photographers who are not here yet who need to be. If we can get more of them to sign up, you guys will love their work. Of course there are many great photographers already on here but still a lot more who could join. - Thomas Hawk

I had to re-share this with all my FB friends. :) - Kelly W.

Still trying to figure out this whole friendfeed experience. I've had the account for a while and see lots of my twitter friends posting via ff - Demetri Mouratis

great piece! - mashable

Hi Demetri =) Different people use FF different ways because they want to get different things out of it. What are you hoping to get out of it? - FFing Enigma (aka Tina)

Thanks for the tip. I had FF but really never 'got' what it was for. This helped! - Molly Nichelson from twhirl

Great work. - Nation Hahn

Nice post Thomas. - Paul Wade

TH - for those photographers that are not on here, I put their flickr id into my Flickr Imaginary friend and see their images that way. However, it would be nice to get more photographers on here with their reader shares and such... - Justin Korn

This is definitely the best "Why Friendfeed" post I've seen. - Nick in Manila

Justin, agreed. I have a bunch of imaginary friend accounts for Flickr/Zooomr users as well. But it is nicer when they actually have accounts here, their work can be liked and commented to the larger FF community, etc. It seems like a few new people signed up today based on this post so I'm happy for that. Thanks Nick! - Thomas Hawk

I have AlertThingy FriendFeed Edition as well as AlertThingy v2 - Outsanity

Well said, Thomas. :) - Josh Haley

Nice list of reasons, all well thought out. While I'm at it, I wanted to tell you that I really like your new blog design too. - Karoli

Good point on getting a domain you like. - Kevin Whalen

Do most folks use FF in Standard or Real-time view mode? - Scott Loftesness

Only ever real-time.. it sits nicely on the second monitor as a Chrome App. - Greg Gannicott

Realtime here... - Chris Gulker

Did you just reformatted your post, Thomas? It a lot easier to scan through now. - Alan Le

Alan, a lot of times I post first and edit later. I probably shouldn't do that, but yeah, after posting I broke up some of the paragraphs better, bolded a few things etc., to make it easier to read. - Thomas Hawk

That's great. Make sure to check out Windows Live Writer for formatting blog posts if you haven't already yet. By the way, I love the new blog design. It's much better than when I helped you with the html way back. http://thomashawk.com/2006... - Alan Le

Barlow, Im currently developping an Adobe AIR tool for FriendFeed: we comin' ! - David Guyon

Y'know... I must've spent two months randomly Tweeting things like "Will someone PLEASE explain to me why I should be using FriendFeed?" ... And then two days ago I start using my account (I'd had one for a while)... and NOW someone finally makes a post outlining why I should be here. You're two days late, Mr. Hawk, two days late. :P - Lou

actually, there's no search for Russian word forms on Frf. For me that looks as if there's no search at all - orie

hmmm.. I didn't know that orie. It seems like there is a lot of international users on FF, that's surprising to me. - Thomas Hawk

I've been trying to make sense of FF for months now, but every time I come away confused. As it is I feel like I'm drowning under all the social networking sites available. I use Twitter, Plurk and Facebook the most, and I use Ping.fm so I only have to post status updates once. How can I integrate FF into this without making things even more confusing? - Chris Taylor

oooh! I found the zooomr version of this post with no formatting and I whined somewhere else in my FF feed. This one with all the formatting is better :D - Tamar Weinberg

Friendfeed rocks! - rampantheart

I really liked how you did a post on Flicker - MaryAnn Chick Whiteside

All good reasons but #10 is my #1 reason :) - Mark Krynsky

Mark - agreed. Also, Thomas ... very nice blog. I like. - Amani

Good post Thomas. I was thinking it would be hard to find 10 points, but I agree with all your points, and am sure there are probably many more. - Peter Efland

@Tamar, the unformated text was a problem on the Zooomr image. Kristopher's fixed that bug now so text in descriptions on Zooomr photos should format correctly now. - Thomas Hawk

I wasn't using FF, but signed up after your post. Now let's see if it is really so useful ;-) - Marcel Körner

@Marcel also take into consideration who you are subscribed to. Aside from maybe four on your current sub list, they are not very active at all on FF. This will affect your experience here. - Carlos Ayala

Didn't know there was a "Porn" room on FF (see screenshot)... - David Young

how did you see that they are not active on FF? - Marcel Körner

David, the "porn" room on FriendFeed isn't all that active actually. I'm not really interested in porn per se, just thought it was a good group name to claim in the great FriendFeed land group name grab of 2008. - Thomas Hawk

@Marcel by their numbers, and the fact that i know most of them and can tell you first hand that they are not. (if you hover over people's names you will see their numbers) - Carlos Ayala