Comments on: You Think Only The A-List Can Have Fun On FriendFeed? Make Yourself Part Of The Experience http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/ The Blog Of Andrew Dobrow Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:52:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.1 By: WinExtra - From the Pipeline - 5.16.08 http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-721 WinExtra - From the Pipeline - 5.16.08 Sat, 06 Sep 2008 05:29:27 +0000 http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-721 [...] You Think Only The A-List Can Have Fun On FriendFeed? Make Yourself Part Of The Experience :: Jersey, Suburbia - a good post on the advantages of becoming involved in the conversation and how it can affect your influence. [...] […] You Think Only The A-List Can Have Fun On FriendFeed? Make Yourself Part Of The Experience :: Jersey, Suburbia - a good post on the advantages of becoming involved in the conversation and how it can affect your influence. […]

]]> By: Cyndy http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-74 Cyndy Sat, 17 May 2008 22:34:49 +0000 http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-74 I think there is a definite caste system on FF. It's just ruled by a different caste than some of the other places online. TechCrunch has Techmeme, Scoble and Calacanis have Twitter, and Scoble and Louis Gray have FriendFeed. I follow only a few people on FF I feel I HAVE to follow in addition to my friends, but I see a lot of things pass by with no comments. It still depends on who you are. But yes, until you interact there, you are summarily ignored. There is no recognition of static FriendFeeds. I think there is a definite caste system on FF. It’s just ruled by a different caste than some of the other places online. TechCrunch has Techmeme, Scoble and Calacanis have Twitter, and Scoble and Louis Gray have FriendFeed. I follow only a few people on FF I feel I HAVE to follow in addition to my friends, but I see a lot of things pass by with no comments. It still depends on who you are. But yes, until you interact there, you are summarily ignored. There is no recognition of static FriendFeeds.

]]> By: Noah David Simon http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-58 Noah David Simon Sat, 17 May 2008 04:22:52 +0000 http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-58 well you know I disagree. I have a feeling I'm the one who pointed this out to you, but the fact is that the only way a newcomer can really compete with the exponential exposure system of friendfeed is by cheating the system and creating multiple friendfeed accounts that comment on your own posts. Very rarely do I see any new names popping around that don't have over 4000 follows on twitter and 4000 friends on facebook. On twitter... (and yes it is a tyranny because they have presumption and pretensions that they don't censor when they really do and yes it crashes and yes they are a bunch of wankers with a lousy server or whatever), but the one good thing about twitter is I can have an awesome time as an unknown. In fact when I had around 1000 followers on twitter before panopticons, I did not have the good time I am having now with 100 followers. I have an intimacy that wasn't there before and I can get to know people. I suppose this will eventually happen too with friendfeed, but right now it appears to be a lot of garbled self love coming out of AList heaven. In some ways making enemies in these networks makes the networks workable, because you can enjoy yourself once you have burned yourself out. If you want marketing exposure, it's better to just buy it with hard cash. I'm sure a fat paycheck would get Robert Scoble to say Noah David Simon really is the bomb. well you know I disagree. I have a feeling I’m the one who pointed this out to you, but the fact is that the only way a newcomer can really compete with the exponential exposure system of friendfeed is by cheating the system and creating multiple friendfeed accounts that comment on your own posts. Very rarely do I see any new names popping around that don’t have over 4000 follows on twitter and 4000 friends on facebook. On twitter… (and yes it is a tyranny because they have presumption and pretensions that they don’t censor when they really do and yes it crashes and yes they are a bunch of wankers with a lousy server or whatever), but the one good thing about twitter is I can have an awesome time as an unknown. In fact when I had around 1000 followers on twitter before panopticons, I did not have the good time I am having now with 100 followers. I have an intimacy that wasn’t there before and I can get to know people. I suppose this will eventually happen too with friendfeed, but right now it appears to be a lot of garbled self love coming out of AList heaven. In some ways making enemies in these networks makes the networks workable, because you can enjoy yourself once you have burned yourself out. If you want marketing exposure, it’s better to just buy it with hard cash. I’m sure a fat paycheck would get Robert Scoble to say Noah David Simon really is the bomb.

]]> By: tc1976 http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-53 tc1976 Fri, 16 May 2008 22:54:53 +0000 http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-53 I really don't understand friendfeed. I've been trying to watch it and play with it but Twitter seems so much more intuitive. Your whole 'participate' push is meaningless to me because in all honesty Friendfeed and even Twitter don't really give you anything to help you understand how you can use their services. All they say is this is what we do. It is great that they don't limit your experience by saying you can only do this but newcomers can often be overwhelmed and perplexed at how to fit such a service into their life...especially when they are utilizing 2 other 'social' networks. Who really needs 15 social networks to keep up with? I really don’t understand friendfeed. I’ve been trying to watch it and play with it but Twitter seems so much more intuitive. Your whole ‘participate’ push is meaningless to me because in all honesty Friendfeed and even Twitter don’t really give you anything to help you understand how you can use their services.

All they say is this is what we do. It is great that they don’t limit your experience by saying you can only do this but newcomers can often be overwhelmed and perplexed at how to fit such a service into their life…especially when they are utilizing 2 other ’social’ networks. Who really needs 15 social networks to keep up with?

]]> By: Shey http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-52 Shey Fri, 16 May 2008 21:21:05 +0000 http://jerseysuburbia.com/2008/05/16/you-think-only-the-a-list-can-have-fun-on-friendfeed-make-yourself-part-of-the-experience/#comment-52 I also liked the point you made earlier that in Twitter, there's a definite caste system based on how many followers you have, i.e., the more followers you have, the more important you must be. That's non-existent in FriendFeed, people just want to converse, no one cares how many people are subscribed to you. I also liked the point you made earlier that in Twitter, there’s a definite caste system based on how many followers you have, i.e., the more followers you have, the more important you must be.

That’s non-existent in FriendFeed, people just want to converse, no one cares how many people are subscribed to you.

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