So yesterday’s post regarding my departure from FriendFeed was not well-received. That’s fine: I wasn’t submitting the decision to referendum, and how people take things is really up to them. I’ve gone out of my way not to look in on the discussion of the matter at FriendFeed, but the indignant blowback in my site comments and email inbox seem to center around how inappropriate it was for me to depart, and that I must never have really understood the service in the first place.
I’ve said about all I care to regarding FriendFeed, other than restating my respect for its capabilities and most of the community. I’m glad to remain connected to many FriendFeeders through Twitter and Facebook — and, of course, through my own publishing. But the angry feelings I seem to have stirred have an anachronistic feel to them, rather like the partisan spirit of old-school BBS wars. This isn’t social media, which is about the sharing of content. And that’s where social media belongs: welded to the content itself, not built on the shifting sands of Silicon Valley web services and startups.
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