This Used To Be My Playground
Maybe you’ve read some of the stories this past week about how FriendFeed’s traffic is way down following their sale to Facebook . The stats don’t look good, as the site’s traffic may have plummeted as much as 30% following its peak just prior to the sale . But to anyone who has meaningfully used the site since its inception, you probably didn’t needs stats to tell you what should be obvious: FriendFeed has turned into a ghost town. One of the most compelling things about FriendFeed has always been just how easy it was to have a conversation on the site. Someone posted an item, and within seconds, many had …

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