Nothing lasts forever, and so it is with FriendFeed which has been the place I’ve visited most and liked the most on the internet for a great many years now. It was the best social network with the best social networking tools and there’s been nothing even remotely close to it in terms of friendliness or usability since its arrival. And that’s the worst part of it; nothing else has come close at all.
I saw relationships form and marriages follow; I had some great arguments with people who I then came to consider friends; I met people from the internet in real life; I enjoyed seeing posts roll up my home stream in real time in English, Italian, German, Turkish, and Farsi.
It’s all come to an end rather abruptly, rather sadly. It could have been handled better but faceless corporations aren’t known for their humanity. There’s no room for emotion in business, even if your business is built on people.
In the admittedly small hope that something will one day plug the gap that FriendFeed filled, my connection details for any other current or former FriendFeeders are:
Twitter: https://twitter.com/neonbubble
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/neonbubble
Flickr: https://www.flickr.com/photos/neonbubble
Instagram: https://instagram.com/mrneonbubble/
I’d link to G+ but by the time I’ve added the tag Google will have closed that down.
FriendFeed is dead. Long live FriendFeed.
March 9, 2015
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March 10, 2015
Pourin out a forty of Diet Coke.