If Kim joined up and then a ton of people followed her and joined because of her… well more power to her and that is great for FF. But abusing the system is abusing the system. There shouldn’t be two separate rules for people. (And I readily admit that it is naive or wishful thinking to think that.)

Also it isn’t like mass adding is targeting her fans or getting more people to like her (look at her follow back ratio). It is building random numbers for the sake of building random numbers.

Sometimes I think we early adopters can be a little sensitive whenever somebody famous comes along and drives publicity to a platform. Why couldn’t we do that? Because we don’t have the following.

If Oprah defected to FriendFeed, the userbase would more than double overnight (from what I hear), but they wouldn’t be the kind of techie/developer/general geek we know and love. But who’s to say that’s the audience FriendFeed wants? Aren’t we being a bit snobby about the great unwashed hordes coming into FF and friending us all? If you were running a social site and a celebrity joined up, wouldn’t you relax the rules just a little because of the exposure they’d give you?

I’m not saying you’re wrong or right, just throwing a few questions out there.