I’m Sorry Robert, But It’s Time For A Friendfeed Intervention
I’m a big champion of services like Twitter and the newer Friendfeed (can you believe Friendfeed is less than a year old?). But there’s a difference between liking a service and having an addiction. Robert Scoble crossed that line, and I believe he’s asking for help.
I spoke to Robert for a few minutes at the Le Web conference a couple of weeks ago. I said "You sure do like Twitter and Friendfeed." His response - "Yeah, but I wonder if that was such a smart investment of my time."
This isn’t the first time Robert has questioned whether he’s wasting his time on those services. On November 18 he wrote (on Friendfeed) "I invested a lot of time this year in FriendFeed and Twitter instead of my blog. Was that the right decision?"
I asked Robert how much time he actually spends on those services. He monitors them all day, he said, hitting refresh over and over on both (he doesn’t use desktop clients to manage the services, and he says he doesn’t like real-time streaming feature on Friendfeed). In addition to watching all day, he says he spends at least seven hours a day, seven days a week, actually reading and responding directly on those services.