by Senior Staff Writer Tyler Knott Gregson

Looks like Fast just got Faster and we’re all about to get a whole lot more transparent. As you already know, FriendFeed has become the one-stop-shop for complete transparency for all of your social media and social networking needs. As usual, FriendFeed collects and publishes updates from nearly all of your online accounts–Twitter, Yelp, Netflix, Blogger, Flickr and a whole slew of others, and shows them to anyone that just so happens to be following your feed. Looks like that whole process is going to speed up even further, as a new Beta version has been launched.

That’s right, a new Beta version is out today and many are wondering if the service is a bit Too fast. No longer does the site require a refresh or a manual reload to see the updates to your friends and family members feeds, now it dynamically updates in Real time. What that means to us is this: As you sit and watch the FriendFeed, it’s constantly updating with each and everything that your friends and contacts are doing, or say they are doing, AS they say it. Cool, yes, but potentially annoying…Yes.

What happens if you’re reading one thing and 4 friends update? What you’re reading gets pushed further down the page, leaving you scrambling to keep up and scrolling to keep reading. Luckily they feature a Pause button on the top right that can slow the madness, but then again, doesn’t that defeat the purpose? All of this leads you to the question of How fast is Too fast? At what point is the influx of data coming from not only our own social media and social network activity, but everyone we know and are “friends” with, going to be just a bit too much? Time will tell, but for now, don’t expect anything to slow down anytime soon, after all, they’re all scrambling to keep up without hitting the PAUSE button.

(image via FriendFeed Beta)