Friendfeed setup

When I was tweaking my Friendfeed account this week end I started clicking on some items that had some results that really overloaded my email account. You have the ability when setting up the friends that you are following in groups in your system. As always, I was in out of screens so often without taking a long look at what I was choosing in my setup. 

The image to the right shows some of the basic categories that I setup to categorize the people that I am following. The bottom half is what you really need to pay attention to. In the next image showing below, you will see that you have the ability to push emails to your email account for all the people that you have setup in your different categories.

If you go to Settings-Notifications:Email/IM preferences, you will get a dialog box similar to the one shown below:

Notice the listings under Friend Lists…  they match up to the categories I showed you in the first image. You have the system Email/IM or send the information over to your desktop client. Good if you need to keep up on someone or some group that is pushing out data that you need to follow hourly or daily. However, when I checked all the categories to be emailed to me there was a thunderous amount of data being streamed to my email box. Whoops! What can make it worse, is that you can push just the new posts, friends comments and new posts or all comments and new posts. There are some pretty active people that I follow that I really would rather pick the time and place that I read their posts and the responses here rather than in my email. If you are like me, my regular mail quantity is enough I don’t need to artificially need to add to it. So pick and choose how you set this option up. By using categories effectively you can really control how you look and find the information that you want to read.