Rich,
I have a two part question:
- I am not clear on if I should accept requests from people I don’t know on FriendFeed. Any tips?
- It seems like Ping.fm lets you post everyone at once…and FriendFeed lets you look at media from lots of sources. Is that right?
Flumoxed About FriendFeed
Dear Flumoxed,
I'm far from an expert on FriendFeed, but let me see if I can help you out. First off, FriendFeed works more like Twitter than Facebook, so the emails you receive are alerts that someone is subscribed to your feed. You can then choose to subscribe to their feed. That's different than Facebook, where there has to be mutual "friendship" for you to see each other's information.
However, if the requests you're receiving on FriendFeed are from the widows of deposed Nigerian royalty then by all means, accept them!
Secondly, your description of Ping.fm and FriendFeed are accurate. You can use Ping.fm to update your status across multiple social media sites; it's like a multiplier for your megaphone. FriendFeed, on the other hand, pulls in updates from multiple social media sites into just one place for one feed to rule them all. It's a collection of your online activity, or at least as much of it as you want to share.
You can also follow people who have set up profiles on FriendFeed if you want to learn more about them, and what they're doing online.
You can subscribe to my FriendFeed by clicking on my signature below:
