You know you're addicted to FriendFeed when...

1. you wish email had a “hide” function
2. you know there are only three absolutes in life: death, taxes, and Robert Scoble
3. you keep answering conversations that have already passed by
4. you look for the like button on Twitter
5. you don't understand why everywhere you turn people are explaining “reasons why”
6. you start to worry whether your FriendFeed stream outranks your blog on Google
7. you haven't called your mom in a week, but you've commented on 200 posts by perfect strangers
8. you secretly suspect Facebook users just "don't get it."
9. you make list posts everywhere
10. you just invited someone to your room, and you're not flirting

Your turn!
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[is it time for FriendFeed to get its mascot? I think it is!]

Comments

[bruce christensen]

I take this as an endorsement for Friendfeed?
Because I am playing catch-up in this new media, every day brings a new adventure!

[Daniel J. Pritchett]

Bruce: Check out this very post on FriendFeed. It's already at 13 comments and 6 likes on FF versus one (now two) comments here. Good stuff!

http://friendfeed.com/e/588a40fe-728a-05e1-b524-ad8023dc960d/You-know-you-re-addicted-to-FriendFeed/

[Valeria Maltoni]

@Bruce - we now have 16 comments and 23 likes on this post over on FriendFeed. If you follow the link Daniel provided you will see the discussion developing.

[Tom Parish]

You know you're addicted to FriendFeed and you find yourself telling your friends about it who you really want to 'get it' and you're getting a blank stare back - but you keep trying ...

[Michael Sean Wright]

My partial "Confessions of a FriendFeeder" List

1. Know your remote key by heart
2. Lost without the Real-Time mini window
3. Know the names of Louis Gray's Twins
4. Smile when Mona or Anna "likes" a post
5. Look forward to the arrival of the "night crew
6. Have adopted "FTW!" in actual in-person conversation
7. You check on the updates of your friends when you don't see them on the front page for awhile
8. Look forward to the holiday FF logo's

[Fatih Akturk]

and i look for the like button here =)

[Carolyn Ann]

1. What the heck is "friendfeed"?
2. Who's Robert Scoble?
3. What's wrong with Facebook? (What's the purpose of Facebook?)
4. Why is it important that there be a "like" button?
5. What is a "like" button?

The hide function of email is: don't load the program. The contents of innumerable emails are hidden as long as you do that... (Somehow, I think I missed the point. :-D )

But, seriously: what *is* FriendFeed? And why is it so important?

Carolyn Ann: a recently accused transphobic misogynist ("they" left out homophobic, for some unknown reason.

[Adam Singer]

I'm slowly being convinced FriendFeed is the best social network. Having a lot of fun in there, far more than Twitter.

[Valeria Maltoni]

@Tom - it's like many practical things in life, one needs to experience it to figure out what's in it for them.

@Michael - those are really good! I love #3, 4 and 7 - so true :)

@Fatih - I know, shouldn't there be a like button on blog posts? I think there's a widget somewhere to give readers the option of voting how many stars, etc. It's low impact for those who do not have time or need to write a comment.

@Carolyn Ann - I linked to a post on FriendFeed at the bottom of this post for those readers who have not tried it yet. It's a place where people aggregate their feeds in a profile, then add friends to their home page (thus seeing all of the bookmarking, sharing and activities of their friends). The tool takes things a step further and also shows you the activities of your friends' friends. So if I subscribe to Adam's feed, for example, and Michael up here is a friend of Adam on FF, I also see his links and streams. There are many added features I have been trying out. One of them gives you the ability to reply to a tweet (from Twitter) on FF and show the reply also on Twitter. Robert Scoble is the mayor of FF, so to speak. He is very active in the network. The like button is a way to signal you enjoyed a post or link, or thread and the tool shows you did for everyone to see. I'm not on Facebook, so I picked up the rumor and was waiting for someone to disprove me, which nobody did :)

@Adam - I see a lot more interaction on FF than Twitter. I tried having conversations on Twitter, as you know, and it takes a lot more to set them up so that more than a couple of people participate and can see what everyone is saying. On FF that's easy!

[Thewirds]

I have stopped using Friend feed since there is nothing to do in that site and i prefer using Facebook or twitter or MySpace to get connected with other different people

[Valeria Maltoni]

Here's my take on FriendFeed - like many other applications, it does nothing until you do something with it. I had better conversations on FriendFeed than I could ever have on Twitter.