Shooting at Bubbles

I just finished up a post over at The Inquisitr about the new look and real-time nausea inducing presentation of your Friendfeed timeline. I will say that I wasn’t as gushing in praise as some have been over this beta version of the new design but at least I’m not alone in my reaction.

First here’s a couple of thoughts about the new layout – the one only a parent could love

I mean it’s bad enough that rounded corners are oh so 2006 but what is with the color scheme guys?

Maybe you need some new

But the biggest news of the new version of a great old friend has to be their implementation of a gut wrenching real-time display of your timeline. So in the spirit of Robert Scoble and his tips on how to deal with this new feature I bring you a cranky old fart’s version

1. Seatbelts

‘cause yer gonna feel like you’re at some F1 race just trying to keep up

2. Anti-nausea drugs

3. Puke receptacle

because trust me – if you follow a lot of people (especially anything over the Dunbar number) you are going to end up

So why provide you with the real world suggestions?

Because using Friendfeed now resembles finding yourself in a wind tunnel and looking like this

and is probably going to start a who new phobia called Friendfeediaphobia especially if these two are any example of what happens after a short exposure to the new Friendfeed

So while you might want to admire Friendfeed for willing to adventure where angels fear to tread there’s probably more than a few drowning their sorrows at the news of the new design

YMMV.