FriendFeed’s new “fake following,” a feature that allows you to appear as someone’s friend without actually recieving updates from them, has gotten a bit of attention from Merlin Mann, Jason Kottke, who calls it “a little bit genius,” and Rex Sorgatz, who calls it “the most important feature in the history of social networks.”
What does this have to do with Mosuki? Well, although it’s astronomically unlikely that FriendFeed got the idea from Mosuki, we can’t help but point out with a grin that Mosuki has separated your public list of friends from the list of people who you actually share events with, and hear about events from, since our very first release, in 2004. Acknowledging the necessity of artificial attention is a critical insight, and it takes any social site one step closer to mimicking real social interaction and being a truly useful tool.