Others Like You Too

Continuing with the FriendFeed comment and likes analysis. Here is a graph showing the percentage of self comments vs. comments from those you subscribe to vs. comments from others. This is based on roughly 700,000 comments and 200,000 Likes

Again, as noted by others the number of self comments are skewed by the fact that notes in del.icio.us and stumbleupon etc are treated by FriendFeed as individual comments. I have not compensated the data for this effect.

It gets interesting when we look at the Likes. I would have expected that the most likes would come from your friends. But likes from people you do not subscribe to slightly outnumber the likes from your friends. See.. others like you too!

That is the beauty of FriendFeed: discovering interesting memes from random people. Ofcourse it would be even more cool to see how many hops away most these people are. I suspect that they would actually be kind of close in the social graph.

Comments

[Liz]

I think it would benefit FF if they had some feature that set apart comments on your own stuff vs the comments by others. That would of course fix the data you collected, but in general, I get confused sometimes when I am reading an item and realizing that the friendfeeder in question is also commenting vs. a response from someone else.