Thunderbird thinks Friendfeed is a Scam - is that Intentional?

Signs of a Zeitgeist - we believe the need now is for Filtering , not Yet Another Aggregation Play (see thoughts here), but have definitely been in a minority until now re Friendfeed.

However Alexander Van Elsas has also now weighed in, with a parallel view - in a high volume GiGo world, the key to valued input is Intention:

But Friendfeed and the likes can’t make that distinction. They publish everything you have imported into Friendfeed, making the rest of the world look at 90% useless information to dig up perhaps less than 10% good stuff. Why? Not because there is too much information. it’s because of a lack of intention.

By now each Friendfeed user probably has imported 10-20 RSS feeds and isn’t even remotely aware of all the stuff he is sharing automatically. Because of this lack of intention most of the shared stuff is worthless. If I see something that I know my friend really likes and then share it intentionally with him, it provides us both with value.

To be honest, this is where my use of Twitter tipped - when people stopped using it as a broadcasting system for their digestive tracts and travel plans (I think Dopplr hoovered up the travel traffic, maybe someone can start up Eatr for the Foodies and Wittr for the other trivia-heads), and started using it with the Intention of saying something useful

That new intention totally changed the dynamic of Twitter.

To be fair, it would appear that FriendFeed has today launched an ability to filter the source, which is a step forward, but the real need is to filter content into "signal" and "noise"

And the heading of this post? Today, my daily Friendfeed email (thats what I use Friendfeed for - a "dump to tank" for all the really verbose Twitterers so I can scan for nuggets at high speed) had above it the note that:

"Thunderbird thinks this Email may be a Scam"

Do the NetBots know something we don't