There are people who are connectors, and then there's everyone else. Scoble is a connector, and that makes him an outlier in terms of Facebook usage:

That brings me to Techquilashots. He repeats something a lot of people have said without really understanding what I’m doing with Facebook: “But the problem Robert (and others with tons of friends -- even if it’s 100) is that you don’t really care about the actions of all those people — and in FB apps, you really want to see the actions of certain top friends of yours.”

Totally untrue. I regularly just click around on my friends social graph. Not just the “big name” ones that I recognize. But especially the ones I don’t recognize. I want to know what connection we have and I want to discover new people before someone else does.

I think Robert needs to step back and recognize that the way he uses tools like Facebook is very, very different from the way most people use it. That doesn't make him weird - but it does mean that he needs to recognize his own status as something of an outlier from time to time.

Another example: he mentions from time to time that he's subscribed to over a 1000 news feeds. Heck, most people I know think I'm nuts, being subscribed to 290.

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