Can friendfeed replace Facebook for me?

Not many of my friends use social networking sites other than Facebook. So that's been the dilemma as I prepared to leave Facebook (which I finally did this morning)--how do I keep in touch with my friends without Facebook?

Duplicating discrete functionalities of Facebook is easy, be they notes, posted items, photos, IMs, or emails. (I don't think it's possible to duplicate FB's "wall" functionality, until and unless I can find a central aggregator subscribed to by all my friends, i.e. another "Facebook.")

The difficult part is (1) disseminating all these updates to my friends and (2) aggregating their updates for myself in turn.

Enter friendfeed. It beautifully brings together all the disparate functionalities I'm used to from Facebook and pushes all of my updates on them out to the more popular twitter service. Now, however, comes the really, really hard part--persuading all my friends to install friendfeed on their Facebook account or, less desirably, to link twitter and Facebook.

Leaving Facebook

After accumulating (exactly) 300 contacts over the past 2.5 years, I am deactivating my Facebook account as of 5/30/2009 due to its newly adopted Statement of Rights and Responsibilities § 4.4, which denies membership to "a convicted sex offender." Since Facebook has been an integral part of my social life over the past 2 years, I am scrambling to find a way to keep in touch with my wider circle of friends without it. I have a Twitter account that I infrequently use and a MySpace account I never use. (I also have a private blog I use to keep track of my spiritual progress, but I'm not sharing it with the public.)

So using Blogger in conjunction with FriendFeed is my (first?) attempt at trying to maintain some connection with old and new friends without Facebook. I'm not optimistic that it'll turn out well, but here it goes anyway...