Friend Feed or Stalker Feed?
Categories: Search Engine Marketing, Social Media
I’m trying out 
(still in beta) that allows you to consolidate and track all of your bookmarks & social communities with a single feed.
It can be a daunting task to keep track of all of your profiles and communities, so consolidation & efficiency makes sense. It keeps track of your online activity based on the services you use (ex: Facebook, del.icio.us, Flickr, YouTube, Digg, StumbleUpon, ect.).
Now let’s go to the dark side. Come on admit it damn it, there’s a bit of voyeurism in all of us. But FriendFeed takes tracking social media to a whole new level - stalker level. It tracks ALL of the web pages, videos, music, and photos you visit & makes it public in a single feed. It also allows you, along with every FriendFeed subscriber, to track the “activities” of other subscribers by simply subscribing to their RSS feed. “Our crawling technology automatically picks up all the stuff you do on the web sites you already use with no additional effort on your part.” Kinda creepy, huh?
What do you think? Is this taking efficiency too far?
Social media tools like Friend Feed are like anything else I think, they can be used for good or for ill intent. The more powerful the tools, the more potential for abuse. Good people will likely use them for good things and creepy people will likely use them for creepy things… just like they do with guns and political power and…
the more powerful the tools, the more effective they are at serving good or ill intentions.