FriendFeed is becoming my "interaction portal"–Begrudgingly becoming addicted to it.

I got into FriendFeed with most of the other bloggerati some time ago.  Frankly, though, I couldn’t get into it.  It was just another thing to have to pay attention to.  Even when Twhirl let me watch my FriendFeed stream and my Twitter stream, I still didn’t grok it.

In the last few days though, I started making a concerted effort to pay attention to my FriendFeed stream.  Realizing that there might be comments and questions about the things I wrote or shared, I wanted to make sure I tuned into that.

While doing that, I found that the people I was subscribed to (lots) were streaming/sharing lots of interesting things and started to “Like”, comment, and follow the links.

Before I knew it, I was wondering about the stability of Twitter, Pownce, and what FriendFeed could do to capitalize on it.

With today’s addition of FriendFeed groups, we have a whole new layer of interaction, one that can be as public or private as we wish.

Chris Heuer said–

“so friend feed rooms finally creates a context for collaborating with groups instead of just communicating. twitter should have done longago”

–which he sent through Twitter, but I read in my FriendFeed stream.

All of this together made me realize that FriendFeed is becoming my interaction portal.

I use its aggregation of your various content streams to both interact with the content through “liking” and commenting but also going to the source and further disseminating it.

On the flip side of this is the part that kept me from getting into FriendFeed in the first place it’s another thing that I have to manage and keep track of in my already taxed attention.  Which is what Louis Gray is getting at talking about—continuous, parallel attention.

Looks like I’ll just have to figure out how to manage more data, or just cut back on the bits that aren’t adding value—or both.