Comments on: Chief Troublemaker Asks: Is It Time to Unfriend People in Your Social Networks? http://womengrowbusiness.com/2009/12/chief-troublemaker-asks-is-it-time-to-unfriend-people-in-your-social-networks/ Women in Business Community Blog Hosted By Network Solutions Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:58:01 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Life in Japan http://womengrowbusiness.com/2009/12/chief-troublemaker-asks-is-it-time-to-unfriend-people-in-your-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-810 Life in Japan Fri, 19 Feb 2010 15:34:14 +0000 http://www.womengrowbusiness.com/?p=3455#comment-810 Even if a person has a large network on a platform like Facebook, they are more than likely only interacting with a small subset of friends. Even if a person has a large network on a platform like Facebook, they are more than likely only interacting with a small subset of friends.

]]> By: patriciaframe http://womengrowbusiness.com/2009/12/chief-troublemaker-asks-is-it-time-to-unfriend-people-in-your-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-809 patriciaframe Tue, 08 Dec 2009 16:45:34 +0000 http://www.womengrowbusiness.com/?p=3455#comment-809 Perhaps many folks are getting smarter about social media uses - as Joanna points out, who do you want to know what. While I keep Facebook for family and old friends myself, know many see it as a numbers game to have a lot of connections. I am always a bit startled by folks I do not know at all who want to link to me on LinkedIn - most understand when I explain but periodically someone gets indignant. Maybe I should keep this to send to such people! <br><br>But it is still a relatively new technology and social norms have not caught up yet.<br>Or maybe it is just that I am too lazy to befriend people online and then have to work to figure out who they are when they ask for something - VBG. Perhaps many folks are getting smarter about social media uses – as Joanna points out, who do you want to know what. While I keep Facebook for family and old friends myself, know many see it as a numbers game to have a lot of connections. I am always a bit startled by folks I do not know at all who want to link to me on LinkedIn – most understand when I explain but periodically someone gets indignant. Maybe I should keep this to send to such people!

But it is still a relatively new technology and social norms have not caught up yet.
Or maybe it is just that I am too lazy to befriend people online and then have to work to figure out who they are when they ask for something – VBG.

]]> By: Jeunelle http://womengrowbusiness.com/2009/12/chief-troublemaker-asks-is-it-time-to-unfriend-people-in-your-social-networks/comment-page-1/#comment-808 Jeunelle Mon, 07 Dec 2009 20:30:08 +0000 http://www.womengrowbusiness.com/?p=3455#comment-808 I was just having this same thought recently while cleaning up my twitter, friendFeed and facebook accounts. I only add people who interest me. I don't add for the sake of quantity, I add for quality. This way I spot quality tweets and can quickly weed out the noise and spam that clogs up those platforms which prevent me from catching the good informative tweets and information. I don't conform to any quick twitter gadgets to help grow my twitter account to 1 million twitter follows. That doesn't interest me and how the heck can I possibly friend and communicate with all those people if I had 1 million twitter follows? What matters to me is the friendships made and the communication and information shared and received from the people I decide to follow. For me it's about quality not quantity however I realize other people do have accounts on these platforms and may open these accounts for other agendas in mind. Responsibly I think everyone should ask themselves why they have those accounts open in the first place and what they really want to get out of them? Are you contributing to the spam or providing decent information to share with your followers on those platforms? My new term is "social etiquette", a smart way to effectively communicate online. I was just having this same thought recently while cleaning up my twitter, friendFeed and facebook accounts. I only add people who interest me. I don't add for the sake of quantity, I add for quality. This way I spot quality tweets and can quickly weed out the noise and spam that clogs up those platforms which prevent me from catching the good informative tweets and information. I don't conform to any quick twitter gadgets to help grow my twitter account to 1 million twitter follows. That doesn't interest me and how the heck can I possibly friend and communicate with all those people if I had 1 million twitter follows? What matters to me is the friendships made and the communication and information shared and received from the people I decide to follow. For me it's about quality not quantity however I realize other people do have accounts on these platforms and may open these accounts for other agendas in mind. Responsibly I think everyone should ask themselves why they have those accounts open in the first place and what they really want to get out of them? Are you contributing to the spam or providing decent information to share with your followers on those platforms? My new term is “social etiquette”, a smart way to effectively communicate online.

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