So as of late, I’ve been putting down the GoogleReader and trying out this new social aggregating site to see what the new hubbub is all about. Now normally I spend several hours on GoogleReader reading subscriptions and “starring” a few here and there.

The thing about GoogleReader is in order for me to receive new articles or links, I need to search them out and subscribe to their feeds, there’s no sharing of opinions involved, unless I go to their blog and manually leave a comment in hopes that they respond.

In FriendFeed, when you subscribe to someone, you get their whole online being (assuming they are sharing their twitter, yelp, blog, youtube, stumbleupon, ect ect.) and you see what their friends post. Instant new content to read. Not only that, but with FriendFeed, the ratio of content to user is at least 10:1. You, being person A, subscribes to person B. When you now check what your friends on FriendFeed are saying, you get what person B says, as well as person C, person D, person E, person F, ect ect, whom are all friends with person B. I love it.

It has changed the way I use GoogleReader. When I read GooglerReader not only am I reading for personal gain, but I am sharing exciting new things for others to learn, like, and hopefully share. This day and age is no longer about what you know, or who you know, but what you can share and who you can share it with.

Knowledge may be power, but FriendFeed wields it.