Haris bin Ali

She's *certainly* doing it for the lulz. - Eric Geller

Wha--Oh, I get it! lulz. - possible248

Absolutely wonderful. I am so pissed I did not think of that. - MG Siegler

WD :-D - Majento

I need something sweet _right now_ - ·[▪_▪]·

They even added Pookey! His head's bigger than Garfield and Odie's LOL - Mona N.

Aren't they cute?? I found them a while ago too. - Lindsay Donaghe

Cool. :) - Mona N.

Nermel looks delicious. - Andru Edwards

Where's Jon? - Tamara J.

Pooky.. FTW!! - Geoff K

Tamara: Are you serious? John cupcakes = Do Not Want (to see!!!!) - Mona N.

I love it! I need to know how to make them! - Brandy Lea

Dude, if you can make these I will be your BFF -for life. - Mona N.

There should be lasagna on the inside. - Pete Delucchi

Pookie! - Josh Haley

look too good to eat ,,, how can you eat Garfield , anyways - johnpiercy

these are so rad. - lisa-k

They're making me hungry - Haris bin Ali

Nermal! - l0ckergn0me

Pooky FTW! - Mona N.

Outstanding! - (Jon) - Jon Payne

LOVE!!! - David Cook

the coffee is in post-production.. - John Cleese

i want my share of the coffee! - imabonehead

sharp!! - Mark L via twhirl

Arghh! - Roberto Bonini

Socom, take a closer look.... - Veronica

...Arrr, i just hope I remember t' reset e'erythin' before Me lea'e on 'acation tomorrow mornin'. Otherwise, I'll be a pirate all week long, argh! - ɐ ɯıʞ sıɹɥɔ

lol crap I missed that the first time! thats awesome :) Have to give them a lot of credit for this.. To find yer maties who are already sailin' the Seven Seas on the Good Ship Facebook, stand in the Crow's Nest and use the Weather-eye for jolly companions. - Socom

lol - Tim Broder

...so, how do you get that function in FB? - JA Castillo

Where is that located? I don't see it. - Kreg Steppe

bottom of the page in the new facebook - Veronica

...unfortunately, I don't have it. Is the dictionary an app? - JA Castillo

I'm an idiot...I see it now. - Kreg Steppe

That is so awesome! Also this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.... A little shakier camera work, but better angle on you. Except when people get their heads in the way, but what can you do? - Jandy Stone

2 words: Frickalooting awesome! - Joshua Mortensen

I think Robert means to get as many new people into friendfeed as possible - Jαmes Cooρer

oh...i thought early adopters were getting attacked - Zee.

Aww, was it the Mashable article? - Daynah

The Center Networks piece? - Chris Baskind

Zee: you gotta check out http://mashable.com/2008/08/27... and http://www.winextra.com/2008/0... - Robert Scoble

Steven Hodson's piece - Hutch Carpenter

lol - Jαmes Cooρer

link? - Duncan Riley

Chris: nah, Allen at CN is right that the recommended page in FriendFeed is totally not good for us. I don't want to be a default. - Robert Scoble

If we didn't have early adopters we'd never know what's good and what's not. - Alex Scoble CISSP

I'm about as early as they come, and I don't feel attacked? :) - l0ckergn0me

So Mashable just called each and every one of their readers douchebags. I'm sure this made sense in a meeting at some point... - Stupid Blogger (aka Tina)

l0ckergnome: tomorrow is pick on Chris Pirillo day. :-) - Robert Scoble

Tomorrow shall be fun. :) Let's start with the hat. heh - Daynah

@Robert, I think you started with the labeling - Jason Carreira

hmm I'm up for that! - Jαmes Cooρer

But aren't we all early adopters of FriendFeed? We WERE here before the new one launched! :) - Mona N.

I think some people don't like early adopters who adopt early just to show off their new "toys". If the intention is otherwise, than I say these people are pioneers. Hats off to you for that, and taking all the flak for it. - Josh Haley

ugh, can't stand Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins after he made some retarded remarks re:Loren Feldman and race and all that bull. I think I ended up blocking him here. can't remember. I usually like Mashable, too. he's tainting it. that "your mom would use it" bit is faintly but irritatingly sexist. - Kamilah Gill

Just gets more fun every day doesn't it. @Robert Mona was here before you ... she just didn't tell anyone. She was 'hiding' herself. - Charlie Anzman

OK seriously you guys, stop. This will now be the second night I've not gamed and instead sat here with popcorn. How am I going to ever get my friggin S2 or finish Twilight Princess (round 3)?! - Candace Holly

Charlie: there were thousands of people here when I joined in February. I'm hardly the "earliest" adopter. I just watch what a large group of early adopters tries and uses and wait for the first wave to repeat to me over and over that something is cool. That's how I found Evernote. - Robert Scoble

Robert (1) I just read the Mashable piece and not only was the stereotype way off (at least where I'm concerned) but I think I just wasted 10 minutes reading the piece and the comments. (2) The other post about you and Mona was a joke (3) I will continue to idolize both you and Louis :) - Charlie Anzman

Robert, Louis, I'm grateful for early adopters like you because it allows me to see much more of what's out there than I could see from any traditional source. I get to taste cool technology and play with it, and share it with others. My parents won't use most of it (nor will they use Facebook), but for those that have a use for it I can share it with them. And no, I didn't vote democrat last election and I love Facebook. - Jesse Stay

BTW, it's posts like this that have caused me to remove Mashable from my RSS Reader (that, and his Mormon post a week ago where he quoted me entirely out of context). I'm losing respect for Mark's posts lately. - Jesse Stay

Jesse - My Mom still won't use a microwave ... - Charlie Anzman

Charlie, my dad still uses a handsaw and refuses to buy most electrical tools - Jesse Stay via twhirl

Jesse: I think it's funny to be attacked for being an early adopter by a site that reprints press releases and competes with TechCrunch to get onto TechMeme with the latest shiny object release. I also didn't get why my politics got pulled into a discussion about early adopter behavior, either. But, hey, makes for some entertaining reading at 5 a.m. in Berlin. - Robert Scoble

Robert, yeah - it seems he's looking for the latest topic that brings in traffic. I hope that isn't the case. What I like about "early adopters" is they're real people like you and me, living the technology they're talking about. - Jesse Stay via twhirl

All I know is if I flew around as much as Robert, I'd be seriously dizzy! - Charlie Anzman

I like you Charlie - you bring reality to every situation :-) - Jesse Stay via twhirl

I don't think I attacked the early adopters, but I did have something to say, and I said it Monday. - Justin via twhirl

Robert - back up your statements. Show me a press release we've reprinted. We never attacked you or even early adopters - I described a stereotype - apparently I struck too close to home with you, and you felt you needed to lash out at us. - Mark "Rizzn" Hopkins

I'm 100% with you Robert, even though I haven't read the post yet. I just like being on your side. - michael arrington

That's every day, no? - john conroy

there are hardly any early adapters on friendfeed .. who here was blogging in 2000? you are all late comers, like the guys who went to bali in the 90's and thought they were discovering something. - Gregory Lent

so Mashable are just saying that they aren't as passionate about new products and startups as Robert and Louis are? No surprise there - we knew that before because it comes across in the difference between how the passionate early adopters like Robert and Louis cover technology and how Mashable covers it. There is a lot of irony to that post that I think buzzed over the authors head. - Nik Cubrilovic

As I said in a recent post, early adopters are some of the most generous people I know. And I'm a cranky old fart, too. - Ro (Lilyhill)

I checked out the Mashable "article" and it looks like a transparent flamebaiting write-up. They seem to be just fishing for page hits. - Chris Luckhardt

Afraid to cannibalize their TV audience? In the mainstream, not going to happen. The people who are going to watch it on the web are the "others," the ones who missed it on TV the first time. - Susan

the web feed was great for stuff that was never on tv to begin with-like TKD before the former gold medalist kicked the ref in the head. - Molly McMahan

Is it possible NBC knows more about programming than a tech blogger..? Nah. - Sprague D

anything to get rid of OpenID.. - Kyle Lacy

Wait, I thought everyone loved OpenID. No? - Chris Brogan

I'm not a huge fan of OpenID - Kyle Lacy

This is like when I was talking about Greenpeace and my wife said "fuckin' Greenpeace." She's from Newfoundland. - Chris Brogan

http://brad.livejournal.com/23... - qthrul

For some it comes naturally and no effort is necessary. :) - Mattb4rd

because they need to feel noticed and important at any expense ... and are generally horrible human beings. - Morgan

http://xkcd.com/386/ Not precisely relevant. But still funny! - David Young

Because they have assholes beating on them in Real Life and they don't have a healthy outlet. - Lindsey

David, I love that one :) XKCD always makes me laugh. - Veronica

@David That's definitely a fav - Lindsey

+1 david - that is a classic! - Morgan

Because they don't have the balls to be assholes in person so they become typist a-holes online - Jeremy Campbell via twhirl

Half the time they don't even have the cojones to put their email address or contact info. I guess that's good, because it prevents me from replying ;) - Veronica

Relativity. - ·[▪_▪]·

As Mattb4rd said, it's natural and takes no special effort. That's what makes the problem so bad for the rest of us. Secondly, those jerks don't have anything better to do. - Morton Fox

Sad little people, don't feed them and they go away. - Mike Mackley

Just imagine if they took as much energy into doing something nice. *shakes head* - AJ Kohn

Because they are too cowardly to say crap to your face. - Josh Haley

I think it's Michael Wesch who talked about the fame of being abusive in his video on the anthropology of Youtube - Badger Gravling

I think it's because there is a level of anonymity that allows people to believe that they can be someone else online, take on another persona, and act in this way. - Shafiq Jetha via twhirl

I personally think Mattb4rd got it right - it comes naturally to some people. Just ignore em - jerks are jerks. - Royce Mathew

Speaking as a recovering asshole, I'll say that people do it for many different reasons. Sometimes its because a given personality with whom you interact has become a communicative pebble in the online shoe of your life, and you just want to blast 'em. Sometimes it's because you've discovered that you're actually very good at being an asshole, and receive lots of praise for it. And sometimes it's because you're the kind of person that just loves to inflict pain. - Roger Benningfield

Ahh yess. The age old question, this about sums it up: http://tinyurl.com/6mocnn - Percival Carti3r

I prefer jerks on the internet, in real life they REALLY suck. Percival - priceless! - JC unwired

it's just too easy. jerks. - John LeMasney

Wouldn't you be a jerk too if you never, ever got laid? - Chantal

the internet is full of trolls. come on veronica don't you know this by now? - Joel Smith

If I click like does that mean I like jerks or agree with Veronica? :-) - gfurry

@gfurry It means that you think Veronica is a cutie. - Mattb4rd

Using the Block feature is your friend - Jeremiah Owyang

for the lulz? - Nick Mutton

I find it surprising that ANYONE is actually a jerk to you. 51% of the internet really respects you, another 48% apparently has a mad geek crush on you, and you found a one percenter moron? Wow. - Brian Norwood

Ahhh Matt has a good point. Little boys often harass girls they have crushes on. - Brian Norwood

The internet tries to make the world idiot free, but the world makes a better idiot. Simple as that.. aka Pete's theory on internet "a#$hole /jerk" evolution :)- - Peter Dawson

yea! fuck jerks. - Greg Bond via twhirl

Veronica, just ignore the jerks. Problem with the Internet is that jerks can hide behind their web browsers whereas in peron they can't. Use the power of the "ignore", "block" or whatever means to ignore them. - imabonehead