Facebook Buys Friendfeed and I cringe--maybe

So many are a wonderin’… is this Facebook acquisition a good thing? Such debate, posting, anger, loathing, celebration.

To my best recollection, I heard about FriendFeed through a Robert Scoble post. It’s been too darned long to determine where I had first heard of the Scobleizer–but ever since first read, he got me hooked.  The second FriendFeed loaded in my browser, it was clear that something outstanding was filling the screen–my whole MacBook Pro widescreen that is (not the 1000px or so version we’ve got now)–and quickly FF was the site of choice to get the best word from what I viewed as forward thinking technical thinkers.

Facebook is stellar.  What a staggering platform, community, web universe so to speak.  The clean interface helps a lot.  To have FriendFeed play a role in the improvement of Facebook is a welcome development.  Yes, the tech minds may be diverted to efforts not exactly in line with what we fans have been used to, but innovation is guaranteed here.  I am hopeful that improvement will happen for many, shall we say, stakeholders.

It’s a mixed bag.  FriendFeed will make Facebook better.  Look what FriendFeed’s done for many folks.  It’s been a vehicle for sharing, for enthusiasm, for meaningful and not so meaningful dialogue, entertainment, amazement, and a clear glance at how we will telecommunicate for years to come.  And the tele- seems to become transparent through all of this.  We’re no longer waiting for interaction.  This is programming to create programming.  This is infinite nested creativity.  And it will work for the good of all of us.

Yeah, I ramble a bit.  I’ll miss the old FriendFeed; but I’m eager to experience what dynamic content will blow me away in the very near future.  Onward and upward!