nicefishfilms

I'm seriously pissed. Not at you. Your departure will mean proportionately more crap in my feed and less of the interesting stuff you shared.

Spraque D,

Thank you for that. When I have more time to filter out the fluff, I'll be back to FF. Thank you for also figuring out that the comments do work, the error page is just to throw off the spammers. See you around the net- I'm also on Twitter- nicefishfilms

To be honest I don’t really engage too much in some of the conversations, and politics I have no particular view on the latter. I have also really enjoyed my time with Friendfeed since joining back in July 08 and felt that it could be a new form of semantic Instanet, others may see it as great new form of chatroom.

However and whatever, FF allowed my impulse and feelings for moments being shared through the beauty of music and the great Youtube and the good videos from whence they came, and in many ways FF enabled to express myself in many ways, and found it quite an interesting, exhilarating and therapeutic experience; I hope that a few others enjoyed sharing these times and sounds with me, and likewise I have through finding and discovering some great links shared by other FFers.

The Sonica music room and others I made became my a human journey, and in some ways a new way of filmmaking and communicating through the use of video clips, and with the new access points of video on YT just released it could become a new form of visual conversation.

Recently, I have been starting to think about the time I have been spending on FF and how the experience was also becoming a bit too insular and that time on it seemed to vanish quite quickly when there are many other things to get on with.

Don’t get me wrong there are some great people on there and I do intend to keep in touch but like everything there is a time and place.

But I remember one of your postings a few months back, of the 88 year old writer who recommends writing one story a week and to stay away from computers!
Although, with my new start-up, this may prove difficult.

In summary, I think the big issue is for those who are saying that they are leaving is the same as a crack addict saying he is not addicted, we are all addicts for human contact and have a need for friendship and companionship, and for many of us we are starting to become more removed from the actuality of it, and for some it is not possible through either living in remote locations etc, services like Friendfeed is and should be a great tool within the toolbox of our communication and information needs.

My postings are not very often anyway and will start to becoming fewer, and will cointinue to visit on occasion, just like you would with friends in real life, quality time rather quantity. After all we all have other things to do and solve with the short time we have on this small/big planet in who knows where!

See you around and good Luck with it all Mike! Please keep in touch you have my email.

Jason,

Thank you for taking the time to write your comprehensive comment. FriendFeed remains near and dear to my heart. This self-imposed time-out is helping me understand what I really enjoy about FriendFeed.

I started to become irritated by the ill-natured tendencies of a few. This is my shortcomings at play. I have become addicted to the community conversation because I see real goodness there.

I'm encouraged by the comments and emails here. There has never been a service like FriendFeed. I understand that there isn't one easy way to manage the "tone" of a site. It is up to us to keep the conversations elevated and relevant.

All the best on your new venture, I look forward to watching it grow. Please keep me up-to-date on all the developments.

When I return to my daily habit of FriendFeeding, I'll be looking more closely at feeds like yours and ignoring the few bad weeds in the field of Friends.