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This post was written with the help of my Plurk friends, and contains some insights from them that may just help you to build strong online friendships.

I began by asking a series of questions over the past day or so about their relationships on Plurk, and other sites such as Twitter and Facebook.

Contrary to the opinion of a lot of self styled marketing experts, social media users are not some group of avid consumers waiting to run and check the latest offering on their website.

These are normal everyday people from a range of backgrounds and interests that meet together on this, and other social platforms.

What Bugs These Folks?

People who Plurk or Twitter 50 times a day, yet never respond on to others.

People who spam with links and or products.

Other things that upset them is plain rudeness, and sharing too much “intimate” information.

The message is plain! Be friendly, reply to others and be respectful.

Sharing the occasional link is all right, but do it too much, and you begin to lose friends.

Once that happens, it really doesn’t make that much sense, does it?

By Guest Blogger: Marc Berry

Marc and his wife write real talk about all areas of relationships, from sex to abuse to pure love and the language of flowers at The Incurable Romantic. Marc is also the author of techne-eikon, a blog about Web 2.0 and Internet Marketing. Follow Marc on FriendFeed and Twitter.

You can also follow Teeg on FriendFeed and Twitter.

FriendFeed for the Socially Inept - Part 2
Read Part 1

Once you have your friends listed in your FF profile, you can start adding the services that you use. The available services are:

* Amazon.com
* Blog
* del.icio.us
* Digg
* Disqus
* Flickr
* Furl
* Gmail/Google Talk
* Goodreads
* Google Reader
* Google Shared Stuff
* iLike
* Jaiku
* Last.fm
* LibraryThing
* LinkedIn
* Ma.gnolia
* Mixx
* Netflix
* Netvibes
* Pandora
* Picasa Web Albums
* Pownce
* Reddit
* Seesmic
* SlideShare
* SmugMug
* StumbleUpon
* Tumblr
* Twitter
* Upcoming
* Vimeo
* Yelp
* YouTube
* Zooomr

Once you’ve done that, your FriendFeed will automagically be updated with all your online activities.

Your friend’s (and their friends’) activities will also be posted to your page for your convenient perusal, and your activities will be posted to theirs (assuming that they have also added you as a friend).

There is one other feature that I just discovered today that I would like to mention: FriendFeed Rooms. FF Rooms are mini FriendFeeds that are usually centered around one topic or group of people, rather than all the diverse activities happening in your network, all at once. I don’t know much about Rooms yet (I did say that I just discovered them today), but I like the idea that I can further refine my FF for certain areas of interest, rather than needing to scroll through multiple pages of updates to find whatever has my ADD fuelled attention at the moment. Rooms can be made public or private, with the public version getting posted to your public feed. There are possibilities here that have me intrigued….

All in all, FriendFeed is wonderful in its simplicity, and does a excellent job of bringing some semblance of order to the chaos that is my online network. I almost feel like I can actually go from socially inept to socially adept, via my FriendFeed profile. Hopefully. Yes, I think that FriendFeed is my newest, bestest friend.