IM is interesting because you look at your buddy list and, at a glance, see what your friends are listening to, what they're working on, what they're doing. The problem was that you were bound to the computer keyboard.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Friends are like windows through which you see out into the world and back into yourself. If you don't have friends you see much less than you otherwise might.
It doesn't happen very often that you get to work with some really good friends of yours and there's a common language between everyone, you don't have to explain what you're doing, you can just run with it. It makes it just so much easier and more relaxed.
The keyboard is my journal.
When I'm online, I'm alone in a room, tapping on a keyboard, staring at a cathode-ray tube.
I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.
The character of the computer whiz is not one that would normally be associated with me.
We created the 'Like' feature in FriendFeed because I realized that people wanted an easy way to let others know that they saw what their friends posted and appreciated it. Putting in those simple little gestures is very powerful.
I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.
There's a button that goes On and I'm On. And when I go On, there is almost no me; there is just a character who is doing all this.
We have recently moved into an era when... everybody can share an inconceivably enormous amount of information just by stroking a few keys on a terminal.