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Do you find FriendFeed to be confusing and/or cluttered?

I finally decided to register for a friendfeed account. After I got everything setup, I found my main page to be cluttered and a bit confusing. Am I missing something?
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pvera | 3 years, 1 month ago
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The main purpose of friendfeed is to collect all of your online accounts so it is easier to follow you. Your followers only have to subscribe to one RSS feed, instead of having to check each of the sites that you belong to.

Using my own as an example, http://friendfeed.com/pvera :

Amazon wish list
Three blogs
Pandora radio station
Flickr
del.icio.us
Picasa
Twitter
Twitpic
Youtube

That's one RSS feed to follow all of my activities, instead of at least 9.

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mrgunn | 3 years, 1 month ago
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It can be confusing and cluttered, especially if you're following a lot of people who use FF like twitter or who twitter a lot and feed it into FF. However, there are some tricks you can use to keep the noise under control. There's a hide link on each entry, which not only allows you you hide that one entry, but provides more general hiding options as well.

If you're subscribed to someone who twitters a lot, or has lots of activity on any service you don't care for, you can use the "hide all entries from this service" function. You can either hide all twitter entries from just them, or from everyone. if one of your friends likes or comments on an entry, it will still show up in your friend feed, unless you specify that they should be hidden regardless.

If you're subscribed to someone who has tons of followers, like Robert Scoble, you will gets lots of entries from his friends. You can use the "Hide entries from friends of" function, or you could just unsubscribe to them and let your friends, some of who probably follow him, like or comment on his entries, which will them cause them to show up in your friend feed.

Yet another way to manage the flow of information is to use lists, and when you subscribe to someone, only add them to a certain list, such as professional, personal, or a topical list you create. The best-of-day feature also helps tame the craziness a bit if you just want the highlights.

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totalanswers | 3 years, 1 month ago
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I agree mostly. I think the idea is to make all our personal feeds and our friends' feeds more simple by combining them in one place. But it feels more confusing with another layer of comments and all. It's a little too meta.

Also, I wish the feed of a blog showed the whole actual post for each blog entry, instead of just the title.

I setup and then deleted a friend feed account twice now. I'm sticking with http://www.profilactic.com for my personal feed aggregation needs. Here's my profilactic "lifestream": http://www.profilactic.com/mashup/totaljoe

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