Internet – Can we please stop with the FriendFeed murderous meme?

Over the weekend it was that FriendFeed is going to kill Twitter – which won’t happen. Today it’s that FriendFeed is going to kill Google Reader – which won’t happen. The simple fact of the matter is that FriendFeed doesn’t have to kill anything or anyone to be useful. In fact, it can easily be argued that both Twitter and Google Reader make up a good part of FriendFeed’s usefulness as it currently stands. You do, after all, need something to talk about.

I really don’t get Loic Le Meur’s post at all. It starts out with the following:

It [FriendFeed] has almost totally replaced Google Reader for me, h ere is why:

-instead of making me use Twitter less, it makes me tweet even more, because I know it also goes to Friendfeed and I will get comments there. I must admit I start to like Friendfeed comments more than @replies in Twitter, but I read both.

That has absolutely nothing to do with Google Reader and several of the other points are only very loosely related to Google Reader in that I think he’s saying it should be more about conversations.

Okay, that’s fine, but if there were to be a conversation about every single feed item I have in my Google Reader (thousands everyday), I would be completely overwhelmed. It would be nice to have a feature to maybe turn conversations on and off, and maybe we’ll get something like that in the future, but for now there is no way I could use FriendFeed to replace Google Reader.

And really, the point is that I don’t need to – their overlap is pretty small for me. I find great stuff on FriendFeed, but I still find much more stuff on Google Reader. They complement one another for my information intake.

Sometimes I worry that users like Le Meur and Scoble are building up FriendFeed too quickly, setting expectations too high, too soon. It’s a great service, one of my favorites, but it’s not the end all, be all – at least not yet.

More importantly, lets stop suggesting that FriendFeed is going to kill every single service that it imports data from – you just know a “FriendFeed is going to kill Del.icio.us” is coming next. Or maybe FriendFeed will kill Seesmic (Le Meur’s start-up); it too pipes in data from there after all.

FriendFeed is not out to kill anyone. If the glove doesn’t fit, you must acquit.