Why I'm leaving Friendfeed,

or how I surrender to the power of the ninja LOLCat


It's 02:00am here, I'm tired and yet I don't have a feeling that I'll regret writing and sharing this with you.
Yes, I could also post this to one of my blogs, but I really don't care about that. I don't care about subscribers,
audience, recognition, ads and marketing thingies.

Now, back to the question. I'm quitting friendfeed. I used to be an active user, I've met and discovered some smart
and nice folks over there, but I'm quitting. No one will notice after all, maybe.

Why?

I've always kept the hope that this great website could be used for smart and useful things, but alas, I was a dreamer.

Friendfeed is a show biz zone, it's for entertainement.

You can argue that people share tech stuff and discuss them. Yes that's true. BUT you have to agree that tech stuff will
definitely vanish besides LOLcats and other stuff when shared by "top" friendfeeders. You just can't make things change.
I'm not superman. And I'm not a like-monster, I don't like stuff by my "frieneds" when I don't like the stuff they post.
that'd be stupid. 

To spread good ideas, you need "top" users.

Tina (a kind friendfeeder) once said that friendfeed is what you make it. I tried to believe, and tried to prove it to myself.
It didn't worked. I strived, I really tried, and it didn't worked. I even tried with a LOLCat.
This morning I got an email from a very smart guy, someone you won't notice easily on friendfeed, telling me how despointed
he is about friendfeed.

I hope that things return to an atmosphere of compassionate, intelligent conversation that FriendFeed once was.  

This won't happen, dear!

People are serious here, too serious about their careers.

You are naive if you think that the croud is sharing in a joyfull and happy mood. This is too beautiful to be true. Sure most of the users
try hard and sincerly, but the ones that have the power to bring the joy are using their "power" to get jobs, promote products,
entertain selfish brand. You are nobody.

You're smelling up the place.

Better to leave silently. Your ideas, your hard tries are not welcome. See? The more you try, the more people think that you're trying
to have a better place amongst the "top". Do people ever think that someone can try to make nice things just for the sake of them?
No! That'd be too nice to be true! You stink for sure. I'm telling you, you stink because you are not funny.

The web is perverted anyways.

I swear I saw some stupid behavior, some of the most pathetic things. I swear that sometimes I wonder what I'm doing here
in a place where some people lick other people's boots. Yes, that's rude, but it's true.

Come on! You're generalizing! Aren't you?

Let me explain this. I'm generalizing because the worst things generally happen with the "top" users. And visibility is about the "top".
In the home page you're seeing the "top" first. The "everyone" page is too noisy to understand. Yes, I hear you too: "You can unsubscribe,
filter, block..." Yeah, now look, mathematically spoken, in every set you'll have a max. Let alone the FOAF feature. You can't controll the
way your folowees subscribe, and you don't want to spend your whole surfing in blocking people.

So, you're actually frustrated because you are not a "top"?

I'm telling you. I've worked and studied copywriting and marketing from the people who know the subjects. If I really wanted to be a "top"
user, I could have used the reciepes. You can also do that. I guarantee you, that if it's what you're looking for, there's proven reciepes.
Some really well written books from the 19th century. Not even by the so called "social web consultants" And you can even find some in public domain.
I, for one, was here to share in joy, and to try to make smart and nice things with smart and nice folks. I've met some, and I'm so pleased
I've done so. Most of them know how to reach me, that's why I don't need this "tool" anymore.

02:45am. I'm really tired, I still have some stuff to say, but I won't write anymore on this subject. I'll share this, and I'm sure whatever the reactions it may generate, it will be forgotten in the next page refreshes. For the simple reason that "top" users would have already filled your brain with sillyness and me, me, me, memes.

P.S. This "article" (not even sure how to call it) has no author and doesn't need one, and therefore is in public domain. You can do whatever you want with it.
P.P.S. You've certainly found some typos and English mistakes. Sorry, English is not my main language. I'm trying. I hope you got the meaning anyways.

- Fin -