April 18th, 2008 | |
Posted in MySpace, Twitter, advertising, editorial, facebook, in the trenches, new media, playtime, soapbox, social media
For the past few days when I’ve logged onto Facebook I have been greeted with my “friends” box, the one that lists six of your friends. Nothing unusual about that of course, except, I haven’t recognized any of the names!
For the past few months I’ve just been approving every friend request that came along. The process went somewhat along these lines - “So you know me through C who knows me through B who knows me through A? No problem - I’ll accept you as a friend. Wait - who is A? Oh A knows me through D!” Which meant that almost half of my “friends” I did not know in any shape or form.
For some in the social media realm this might be acceptable and it was for me for a while, especially on MySpace; but when I joined Facebook I did so to reconnect with Real Life people. I started off with a former co-worker, then went on to a college roommate which led to a couple of former college classmates. Along the way I re-connected with family, old friends, former co-workers (including oddly enough almost every receptionist I have worked with for the last 10 years!), a couple of current co-workers (hey I see these guys every day, why would I want them on Facebook?) even an old high school crush. Oh and people who have also rescued Retired Racing Greyhounds.
I also sought out old business network contacts, then expanded to Twitter friends. After this is where it got out of hand, it was when I was on an Internet marketing kick, and I added a couple of web base marketers that my friends list exploded.
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