FriendFeed is all the rage among early social media adopters right now, but there is one thing that is so desperately needed: consolidation.
I don’t have all of the same “friends” everywhere. So, something I talk about on Twitter won’t be seen by my StumbleUpon friends. But both feeds go to FriendFeed, so they’ll both show up on my FriendFeed feed. Say that ten times fast.
So, if I submit a link to multiple sites or discuss an item with multiple networks, there will be a lot of repetition on FriendFeed.
This makes me wonder if FriendFeed’s ultimate goal is to become the one place to go, the original (and maybe primary) place to submit content.
Until then or if that’s not the goal, I’d really love it if FF could figure out a way to just show one instance of the same link. This should be easier to do for sites like StumbleUpon and Google Reader than Digg. At this point, I’ll take whatever I can get.
Also, I don’t like when “old” items pop back up in FF applications like Twhirl and Alert Thingy just because a new comment has been attached to the submission. I’d rather only receive the update if I’ve commented or selected that particular submission to track.
Reducing noise would make me use FF more, how about you?