Like most social media folks, I tend to sign up to most of the new networks, so I can try them out. I've been on FriendFeed for over a year now and although I like the fact that the service aggregates most of your lifestream (Twitter, Flickr, LinkedIn, Seesmic, YouTube and many more - see below -), my issue with FriendFeed is that it's yet another service and that realistically I can't use of all them...
Let's say I was to follow 1,000 people on FriendFeed, like I do on Twitter. Not only will I see the Twitter feeds of those 1,000 people but also potentially their pictures on Flickr, the videos they've uploaded on Dailymotion, YouTube or Vimeo, their latest blogposts, the events they're attending to via Upcoming, and potentially the presentation they've uploaded onto Slideshare. All sounds great: a service aggregating your lifestream in one place. But potentially the content of each of my follower will be enough to fill in my whole screen, which makes it impossible to follow everyone...
The reason I'm bringing the subject is that as I'm sure you know, FriendFeed latest improvements make it easy to import all of your contacts from Facebook, Twitter, Gmail, Yahoo or Hotmail into FriendFeed, which means that as I'm sure you've noticed as well, there is a growing number of people subscribing to one's FriendFeed's.
Don't get me wrong, this is a very clever thing FriendFeed is doing to relaunch the usage of their service. I'm not sure how I should use it yet / whether I should use it but I will try and get back to it, check out the functions and see it this works for me, and who knows, I come back to you in a month and say this is the best thing ever... (so don't be surprised if I subscribe to your FriendFeed in the next few days!)
How about you? How do you use FriendFeed? Have you created groups/friend lists? See what would make it really appealing to me would be to have a Tweetdeck equivalent for FriendFeed. That would ease things for me!
