"Woohoo, awesome, I love the Civilization games, remember the first one that came out on the PC, I was hooked! :D I don't bother playing game apps on Facebook but even I might have to check this one out"
- Geoff Jackson
Yes, Facebook, thank you so much for your *amazing* suggested friend feature. A grandmother type with a crazy sweatshirt and another with her pants pulled down around her ankles. I'm so impressed with your uncanny ability to find just my type of new friend.
Yes, the "suggested by" gives it away. It's not the "you might also know…" automated recommendation. It says more about your friends than it does about Facebook.
- Glen Campbell
That was my understanding too. These are friends your friends suggest. Interesting circles you run in; I can't imagine a real person putting that rear shot as a profile pic on fb.
- Kenley Neufeld
from iPhone
sometimes I acidently end up accepting these as they feel just like actual friend requests. That bottom new friend might take some explaining to my wife. Facebook ought to consider letting users turn this feature off if they'd like. I know I'd turn it off.
- Thomas Hawk
That's hilarious. I always get recommended people I already know that are new to FB
- Francine Hardaway
The really question is did you friend either?
- RAPatton
haha, no, neither. I was tempted to friend the grandmotherly type since we've got 12 mutual friends but I have no idea in blazes who she is.
- Thomas Hawk
I'm more impressed with the 305 messages in your inbox.
- Kevin Pedraja
I'm so terrible with my email/flickrmail/facebook mail. I try and try and just can't keep up with it all.
- Thomas Hawk
Im less likely to subscribe to either .. unless I know them ,,,
- johnpiercy
I have 587 unread messages in my Facebook inbox. I actually read all them through e-mail, and there's no good way to mark all as read. Facebook sucks for e-mail-like communication (as does Twitter).
- Jesse Stay
At least facebook should not show the same suggested friends again and again once we hit X on it but it does show them repeatedly. Very annoying :(
- Muhammad Ahmed
4647 is alot Geoff. I hate all forms of email myself actually. It feel burdensome feeling that you have to respond to someone or risk offending them. I much prefer interacting with people directly in forums like FriendFeed or DMU on Flickr in public than one on one. Email should be reserved for things that really do need to be kept private.
- Thomas Hawk
Thomas: Yeah my Facebook is pretty hectic and I although I do read my messages on there, I can not keep up with them at the rate they come in. I rarely use email at all these days though unless it is to send files to someone. I just hope one day i will not have to find an old message on Facebook, haha
- Geoff Jackson
I am so with you. It's annoying. I spend the most time on Facebook x-ing out people I've never heard of that might be my friends. It gets better. Yesterday I got a notification - where my high priority Scrabble and Lexulous pings turn up - of some guy, never heard of him either, that had just joined FB and did I want to suggest friends. WTF?
- Cathleen Rittereiser
it seems to periodically (weekly?) refresh the suggested friends....
- Jason A. Samfield
What social networks/online community sites does everyone else use? Please ReTweet, I am compiling a massive social network database and am looking for as many as I can (mainly niche/industry networks now). Please reply in the comments with anything else you use. Thanks
OCD Facebook User. Disqus In theory Google Reader/Feedly, but it needs a cleanup. Occasionally stop by here. Occassionally Reddit (reading only, I have a slight fear of commenting)
- Shana
Brightkite, identi.ca, feedly, Disqus, threadsy, and brizzly.
- Shea
from iPhone
Mostly FriendFeed, Twitter, occasionally Facebook and LinkedIn
- Leigh Marriner
Thanks for the comments guys, can anyone advise how I can gain more exposure from this topic and tons more comments/feedback?
- Geoff Jackson
@scobleizer: Your right, I am not including every network however, it has to qualify under certain criteria before I deem the site useful enough to be included in the database. If it has little or no value then it will be of no use to my visitors also.
- Geoff Jackson
Geoff: the problem is that there's no payoff for any of us giving up this information. And, anyway, I already have thanks to Google Profiles.
- Robert Scoble
Robert: All this data will be released for free, a filterable database by various criteria, a free pdf document giveaway and eventually a fully comprehensive website will be created searchable by keyword tag and also filterable. For free. I think many people will find it very useful come the end. :)
- Geoff Jackson
have a voting application like the one at http://moderator.appspot.com/, i think you should start a website and a database like the one at techcrunch or it's crunchbase i think
- testbeta
Jim: The idea is senseless. Frankly Twitter is a great reason to be on FriendFeed everyday. Don't you agree?
- Amir
from iPod
@Amir - agree completely. I am abscent from Twitter for a week now and feel very at home back on friendfeed. More signal - less noise :)
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
Alex: YES! Twitter is crouded and cluttered with much absent minded posts. With FriendFeed there is much more REAL engagement. It puts the social in social media. I am absent from Twitter too. I tell everyone now, you can find me on FriendFeed :)
- Amir
from iPod
As Twitter has grown, it's become a spam magnet - worse still, a spam magnet without a filter!
- Jim Connolly
FollowFridays are one of the main reasons I abandoned twitter
- Ade
There are 'social media gurus' telling people they can attract more followers, by spam-broadcasting hundreds of #followfriday recommendations. The idea is that the spammer ends up in the @reply tab of everyone they recommend, and a percentage of those people will follow the spammer. It's total bullcrap!
- Jim Connolly
It appears unfixable, as in the damage is done. I still have a good number of folks I chat with on Twitter but now it's becoming more rare
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Ah, Friday... It's when people on Friendfeed bitch about Twitter
- Andre P. Siregar
sorry for bad spelling (='absent' - I am mixing my languages in phonetic artsy ways). I would love to see a 'feature' where one of my trusted 'friends' (all you around here would do) would have 'privilege' access to my own feed - so whenever one of us nukes a spam-bot or money-guru it gets killed for the rest of us. Of course, that can be a tricky feature - but no anti-spam-script can do what we, as a community could.
- Alex 'BuckyBit' Covic
I've been unfollowing a lot of people on Twitter that spam this crap. it's useless.
- Bill Kinney
I get people asking their followers to follow me - when they don't follow me themselves.
- Jim Connolly
Oh, and you have to love those idiots, who just send pages and pages of followfriday recommendations - as if anyone's going to go through 200 user names and follow them all.
- Jim Connolly
As in the concept as a whole or is there something specific going on with the #followfriday hashtag that I am unaware of?
- Geoff Jackson
Geoff: It's turned into a spam-a-thon. Many people just spam out lists of hundreds of @usernames - hoping they will attract follows themselves.
- Jim Connolly
Jim: Ahh I see where your coming from, yeah I feel there is little value behind the #followfriday hashtag now. What was once a great idea if used sparingly and for real valuable sources just isn't the case anymore (especially once it was spread out across the rest of the week using #followmonday, #followtuesday and so on). I am surprised there is not a method in place to block hashtags from entering your feed.
- Geoff Jackson
This is exactly why there should be a filter on Twitter. #followfriday would be the first subject I would block
- Asgeir
Ahaa, I found it... Took me ages to find this bloody post. Clicking on my name brings up my posts. And clicking on 'My Discussions' brings up posts I've commented on. Eureka!
- Geoff Jackson
"I've just been subject to comment theft. I Facebook Connect'd, posted my comment and it consequently vanished off the face of the earth which I discovered by clicking through to the last page of the comments (stupidly not noticing the 'Sort by' drop down which would have made life easier lets face it). I then thought, I'll connect via Twitter and low and behold my comment appeared, like out of nowhere, resurrected... Mashable Magic!"
- Geoff Jackson
"The weird thing is, one of these email alert systems sent me an email saying I have lost over 140 followers yet I'm not aware that my follower count on my profile itself has actually decreased. Heh - I did wonder what was going on..."
- Geoff Jackson
Ok, I have 5,061 subscribers. Seems crazy high for the engagement I see on my stream. Let's see how many of you actually exist around these parts: Comment plz! (Remember when I got called out a few months ago for not participating enough on FF? It worked!)
but I'm not a subscriber :) You can't really know, because as people comment this entry, all their followers get the "friend of a friend" item in their feed. Go figure who among those participants are subscribed to you.
- Jérôme Flipo
Sarrita - You do realize you're going to pull more than just your subscribers right? We're blasting this out to all our friends of friends too.
- Matthew DeVries
I have to admit, it's pretty fun to watch you guys comment in real-time. Good thing I have nothing else to do all day. Matthew DeV- yeah, I know, not a perfect system. I guess my point is that FF sub numbers are misleading, there are a lot of DOA accounts!!
- Sarah Lane
Loved you on AOTS1000. How was the Chalula?
- GMar
I feel Marty thinks TWiF is getting to be a real pain in the butt. Maybe you could all convince Leo to move it to San Fran? I'm sure he'd get even better guests/hosts to move to a 24/7 format...?
- Jude
Hello Sarah. I think yours was the first feed I subscribed to when I joined FF.
- Thomas
just so we're clear on this... i'm not commenting because you asked... i'm commenting because i want to
- Chris Heath
Matthew DeV- I'll pass along! Jude- hmm, I'll think about that one. Chris H- FINE! BE THAT WAY!
- Sarah Lane
Well I'm not hanging on every word, but I enjoy your stuff.
- Chris Menning
I am alive and well, how are you doing?
- Gary Oswald
Thanks Sarah. You have a standing invitation to be on our show and just chat about whatever happens on FriendFeed, tech, etc. DM me if you are interested and we will make it happen. (also we have a room/group on FF http://friendfeed.com/ffunder... )
- Josh Haley
FFundercats: Diggnation minus the cult of personality?
- Daniel J. Pritchett
Daniel - there's a live thread (Real time FTW) with the podcast, and direct interaction with that thread. I usually have Friday plans, but when I don't it's a supremely fun time.
- Matthew DeVries
Hurrah! Nice to see you posting here, even if it isn't for anything interesting.
- Kenton
Hullo there...you are still in my main feed... :)
- JA Castillo
John W- oh, I'm sure they exist somewhere, just wondering if it's here, too. ;) Chris M- casual enjoyment is enough for me! Kenton- oh please, this is riveting stuff! (I'm subscribing left and right due to this conversation, so thanks for speaking up and helping me find you!)
- Sarah Lane
Yes, I remember when you got called out a few months back for not participating. It was me that called you out. I refer to that, now deleted post, as "The Emperor's New Clothes" post. After I was condemned for daring to ask why cewebrity accounts on FriendFeed were given such an inordinate amount of attention considering there's no reciprocation on the part of the poster, my question...
more...
- Christopher Harley
Sarah - I've enjoyed your posts as I see them float down the stream :)
- Jennifer Dittrich
Mike N- it counts for a sub from me! Although the first thing I saw was a post about your laptop, your mom, and porn. Let's see how this relationship goes. :)
- Sarah Lane
Yet another try at creating the longest thread on FF? ;)
- Holger Eilhard
I'm listening, but I don't know what to say.
- Donald Forth
Well, this is certainly a nice hefty thread... but I think I've made the point that clearly the large majority of my followers aren't actually paying attention (for example, my BFF Kim Kardashian). :)
- Sarah Lane
She is just jealous that you get to hang with Martin on Fridays.
- Eric Geller
made the best of day.... who the hell are you?
- Noah David Simon
Sarah Lane is the wife of Leo Laporte of Twit Live. Her son is Kevin Rose of Digg fame. And she is only 30.
- Mark
...and I'm supposed to know that? how can her son be of Digg if she is 30?
- Noah David Simon
Only if you've used the internet for more than 8 minutes in the last decade.
- Matthew DeVries
twif rocks, U & sargent are halarious. ive been watching since techTv days. Martin's cadillac RIP
- echostreamer
all I know is this woman has issues that people are following her... and I wasn't following her till she had issues. what a paradox! ....wait a minute... she sounds like a feminist!
- Noah David Simon
If that's all you know, then that's all you read, but there's more to know and you've just decided not to assimilate it. Say Luh Vee.
- Matthew DeVries
martins lobster tweet was hilarious and so was your calling him out. Also "who Tila Tiquilla?" was great line. been watching since techtv. follow me if you'd like on FF and Twitter @echostreamers
- echostreamer
love to listen to your on Twit network. Since I installed FF on computer, I see your streams more. usually I click on links that people post if it seems interesting to me. usually don't comment though. keep it up!
- kent williams
Hello.You've been on my favorites list for a while now. I'm just sparatic about my interaction, and often get distracted by stuff like Sims 3 and WoW when at the computer.
- Tony, Paradox of FF
after looking at the bios in this thread, if every1 in this thread started a tech company together, im pretty sure it would replace google tomorow. im not sure i am even qualified to be in this conversation
- echostreamer
Ok, now I *have* to go participate in a Current TV happy hour. Boo hoo, unlucky me. Will check back later. Thx to everybody who reached out so far. It's great to have those of you not already on my radar, on my radar. :)
- Sarah Lane
How will I explain this to my grand children?
- barce
from iPhone
You're going to have to try a lot harder to get rid of us.
- Gus Cuddy
from iPod
I think it's safe to say that this was a success
- Steve Poland
Gus- I don't want to get rid of you! Silly Gus.
- Sarah Lane
Of course you don't. Heh. Naw, just kiddin. And you don't know how many times I've been called Silly Gus. I think it has a certain ring to it.
- Gus Cuddy
from iPod
I'm not in your stream, your not in my stream, and still everything is lively.
- Amit Morson
I am not a subscriber, nor do I have any idea what your normal content is like, but I can imagine that some percentage of your subscribers did so purely because your avatar is an attractive woman (and you have a females name). I'm not saying this to belittle your contributions; just sharing an observation of male behavior. -- huh, I just went and looked at your profile (I had never heard of you). I'll add your celebrity status as another reason people might follow without planning on engaging.
- Bill Rawlinson
Hello. I'm not a subscriber, but since someone I follow commented, I felt the need to say "Hi" too. Hello from Washington, DC. The only times I comment on FriendFeed are: 1) it's funny, 2) it's about dogs, 3) it's about cutting-edge tech. Since you called out the "lurkers" on FF, I'm here. ;)
- Ken & Kiyomi
Whew! Just catching up on all your lovely comments. Thanks everyone! Now, we're only missing about 4,600 folks. Send out the search party! Kidding, kidding.... I was just really curious as to who was actually around and paying attention. >^__^< <----- my first ASCII cat ever
- Sarah Lane
Thomas, http://friendfeed.com/sarahla... or http://friendfeed.com/sarahla... will have comment boxes at the bottom always so you don't even need to click - opening the entry/item in it's own window is the key (clicking the timestamp like josh haley said will do that) then if you want the clean embed version you just add ?embed=1 to the url, or click the timestamp again - it's that simple
- Chris Heath
The only way to follow someone is if you follow fewer than 5,061 'people'
- Terris Linenbach
Hello from Cambridgeshire, Englandshire. Now, where do I put the stamp on this thing?
- Ben Aldhouse
Terris- no, that's the number of people subscribed to me... I can't imagine following 5,061 people! Think of the real-time scrolling! Aaaah!
- Sarah Lane
Well, it *was* the number of people subscribed to me. A few more now.. hi everyone!
- Sarah Lane
Tell us about the beginning of this FF post grandpa! Well kids, when I was a young man, Sarah Lane posted a question about having five thousand followers... (long old man story) ... and the post survives to this day, in the year 2074. Back when this thread started, the machines hadn't taken over yet...
- Dave Friedel
Hey there from the back woods of British Columbia
- Trent Shields