Thank you Internet, Bjorn and Friend Feed.

This morning I wrote a blog entry about how friend feed needs an article suppression system, and Bjorn Stromberg was good enough to send over a Grease Monkey script for filtering out stuff on Friend Feed. The good thing about Friend Feed is that I love it, but there are some things on FF that I am just not going to want to see at work or in some cases at home (sorry to all chickens in the world, you are tasty, but I do not care how you started out).

We have been road testing Bjorn’s script all day, and honestly, yes, we love it. Clean, small, plugs into Firefox, and it works as advertised. All good things if you are busy using friend feed at work, and some of those tangents that people go off on can be not something that can be shown at work. Social networking is great, but sometimes not so great when you are at work, or well doing other things that might occasionally show up on the system.

Some folks suggested that I use the Hide Button (or object) on the page, but unfortunately, I do not seem to have that option on my account, I have comment, like, and more which is all centered on republishing rather than anything truly useful. The hide button would have been cool as well, and probably something else that Friend Feed could roll out to everyone. Unfortunately, good advice, do not have it, cannot use it if I do not have it.

Otherwise, you definitely want to check out Bjorn’s script, it rocks, easy to install, requires a reboot to your browser when you install grease monkey, but other than that, works as advertised. Thanks Bjorn!