Comments on: Building Friends Lists and Influencing People

By: Robin

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Find the Right People to Follow on Twitter | SpecialityMoney.com — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 01:21:21 +0000

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link building service — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 20:46:47 +0000

Very well said! As someone who’s dying to get more Twitter followers

By: LaLa417

LaLa417 — Tue, 27 Jan 2009 03:09:59 +0000

I’m quite flinty when it comes to friending people on Facebook. My rule is pretty basic. I’ve had to at the least met the person once and actually liked them. I do this because what I really like about Facebook is that instead of of the typical wacky internet personae you find on other sites, it’s the real people I know using their real names and posting real pictures of themselves. And because most of my friends are roughly all in mid to late their thirties, it’s more pics with their children and less with beer-bongs… I also have a Live Journal account and with that, my rule is almost the opposite. I tend to write about stuff I’d rather not have my business customers or even friends know about. I’m far too private of a person to generally share such explicit details. So the friends I have on LJ are all in imaginary realm that is the online world. I don’t even bother with MySpace anymore.

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By: Susanne Goldstone

Susanne Goldstone — Mon, 20 Oct 2008 14:51:44 +0000

Very well said! As someone who’s dying to get more Twitter followers, I still am as hesitant as you to follow just to be followed back. Let people follow you bc they enjoy what you’ve got to say. Although, my Facebook/Twitter ratio is almost 6 to 1, something I’d like to improve on, I’ll let my tweets speak for itself.

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Don’t Friend Me Because I’m Beautiful « Tape Noise Diary — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 18:48:21 +0000

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By: tantibaci

tantibaci — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 05:55:03 +0000

People think they’re “safer” online if they don’t add random friends (people they don’t know) but that might not actually be the case because the “truer” your friends list is to your real life friends/acquaintances, the more valuable the information Facebook (& viewers/hackers) can have on you because it’s true…? Maybe? Ahh! Online communities craziness, lololol…

By: zchamu

zchamu — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:05:54 +0000

I do use whether someone is following me on Twitter as criteria for whether to cull them if the list is getting too unwieldy. When I’m checking my list over I’ll see people that I obviously added for a reason at one point, but if a month later I can’t remember who they are and they aren’t following me, you bet I’ll unfollow them. It’s a two way conversation, and if they’re not interested in listening to me, I probably won’t be bothered with them either. However if they’re following me, I’ll generally leave them in, because I feel at least they’re making an effort to get to know me as well.

By: Elisa DelBonis

Elisa DelBonis — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 01:05:13 +0000

Reading this made me feel a little less crazy. Or a little more. I haven’t decided yet.

I have 375 friends on FaceBook. I know every single one of them personally. High School, College, Summer Camp… my professional life… the list goes on. And more every day as the 35+ crowd gets on the train.

It stresses me out. I consider killing the account and starting over.

But then I don’t… because I just don’t have the discipline to not have it snowball again. And really, I don’t know where the friend or not line should be for me.

So for now, it’s if I’ve ever met you in person and would greet you by name in a crowd. If not, no dice.

By: Tara Joyce

Tara Joyce — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:12:25 +0000

You have expressed my sentiments exactly and inspired me to be a bit more selective with my “following”.

I really connected with your thoughts. Thanks for writing them.

By: Brian

Brian — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:11:46 +0000

I think each network has a different method to friending. I am much more likely to friend people on twitter who I think are interesting even if I don’t know who they are. It just comes down to how you want to use each network and then going about friending people appropriately.

Brian
http://www.konnects.com

By: Emily Williams

Emily Williams — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 15:25:45 +0000

Agree with you on Twitter – I follow my real life friends and lots of people that I find either personally or professionally interesting, although my Twitter account is mainly professional. Facebook on the other hand is almost exclusively personal since I started using it while in college. I do have a few professional friends on there, but most are people I’ve connected with elsewhere either online or in real life.