I'm Over Twitter

So I broke up with Twitter in March for a litany of reasons, but one reason stands out more than the others. Whenever something gets this much coverage, I tend to lose interest. I want the newest, latest, greatest thing that nobody else knows about yet. Kind of annoying I know ...

In this case, for now at least, I went backwards. I started building up my FriendFeed account (although admittedly it's still pitiful) and using FriendFeed for micro-blogging.

Cool things about FriendFeed:
1. You can add in all of your other site feeds. So, if you are involved with other social media sites for blogging, micro-blogging, social bookmarking, photo - video - music - book sharing, news services and most other status and/or sharing sites -- all of these feeds can be filtered into FriendFeed.

So what the heck does that mean? Well, it means that if I write a blog post in Blogger, add new photos to Flickr, write a review on Yelp, select a new song on iLike, add a new video on my YouTube channel, or bookmark a site on Delicious - all of these items will also post in my FriendFeed.

Any friends subscribed to my feed can see what I am up to at any given moment.

2. I can filter the feeds of my friends (or folks I am subscribed to on FriendFeed) to see only the specific kinds of updates that I want to see from them.

Translation ... if I am subscribed to a social media guru and I heart his blog posts but could care less about his Upcoming feed, I can filter that out to just see what I want to read.

3. FriendFeed will recommend "popular" friends of friends to you. You can also create imaginary friends that are NOT on FriendFeed, but use other social media services, so you will get updates when they post photos on Flickr or similar.

4. Create lists to categorize your FriendFeed pals - there are default lists (Favs, Personal and Professional), but you can also add your own.

5. Create a private feed room for a group in FriendFeed Rooms - share info, links, photos and more in your own room! Rooms are a great way to share information with a company group or even your family.

I'm so over Twitter. Let's see what pops up next ...