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Managing the Friendfeed Stream

Submitted by Tsudohnimh from blog

Jul 03, 2009

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In my attempt to introduce Friendfeed and provide some tips for becoming a power user this tip may be the most crucial to maximizing and enjoying your Friendfeed Stream.

Group your friends into Lists

Friendfeed improves drastically as your community grows but you’ll soon find having over 400 people in your Home feed just isn’t manageable. The content and conversations stream so quickly that they become overwhelming and your signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) is decreasing.

One of the best methods for maintaining the value and SNR of Friendfeed is to liberally use Friendfeed Lists. Lists let you organize the people you subscribe to into manageable streams. There are probably as many methods for creating lists as there are users but to demonstrate their worth I’ll share how I use lists to manage my feed.

Front Page (High Signal) – These users share content that I consistently find to be valuable and interesting. This list also includes my very close friends. Our relationship adds value to their content. Examples include: Louis Gray, Steven Hodson, Ken Stewart, Hutch Carp

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