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Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

Dave Martin — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:39:47 -0000

Bravos! Well said. There are some deeper conversations happening in the rooms.

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

Susan Beebe — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 17:15:04 -0000

Excellent article Steven!! I too have noticed that FriendFeed conversation has really polarized around Social Media, Politics, Web based apps - especially pertaining to the latest hot bright shiny 'toy' applications (think startups). Much of the user base on FF is early adopters who have found a heaven in FF which has become a virtual water cooler to discuss / share about THOSE topics, almost to exclusion of other topics / conversations

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

Alexander "SquidLord" Williams — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:51:41 -0000

I just read feeds NOT about SocNet stuff via RSS. From elsewhere. Because FF is a truly lousy medium for actually being exposed to ongoing comment, discussion, and exploration.

At worst it's an overgrown chatroom with threading. At best it's a newsgroup with no focus and lousy filtering tools. Neither of these is good for research, understanding what's going on in the world, or news. That's why Hades invented Google Reader, after all.

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

StevenHodson — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:48:11 -0000

That is a valid question about the knee-jerk reaction and I'm not sure I
have an answer for you. My supposition is that it probably did to a certain
degree just as the inclusion of FriendFeed in the title may have accounted
for some of them as well. The only argument I could possibly against that is
the readers coming from FriendFeed itself in that they aren't not in my
opinion the type of readers given to falling for cheap 'title' manipulation.
They actually take the time to read what is being put in front of them and
then making their decsions based on that.

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

CyndyA — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:26:00 -0000

Hah. See most of my articles now. I don't think they even get read anymore since I no longer blog exclusively about Web 2.0 stuff. Most go by with no likes and no comments. It's a very narrow focus there, that's for sure.

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

Anika Malone — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:25:49 -0000

Does the number of likes on either post match with the number of page views coming from FF? What I'm getting at, is that it seems this Scoble person (I'll assume it's not the Alex one) is pretty important to some people, it seems that everyone is following him, which sorta sets him up as a person to be hated/abused. Based on your title alone, I think that people would "like" it just as a passive-agressive way of giving Scoble the finger. Chances are they didn't read either post or only read one of the other, but I do wonder how much of that "like" on the second post was knee-jerk because of the title.

Re: How Not To Be Liked On FriendFeed

Mona Nomura — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 16:17:21 -0000

Critical thinking ftw
Nice piece, Steven. :)

Now please excuse me. I have to go follow my followers baaaaaah baaaaaaaaah. HA ;)