facebook friends
Is it just me, or has Facebook suddenly got more popular than subway? I'm noticing that many of my RL friends and colleagues are now finally getting on the facebook, and I'm wondering what made them finally do it.
One thing may be that they've added some kind of "do you know these peeps" tool. I'm guessing it's based on the six degrees concept; if three of the people in your network have this other person in their network, there's a good chance you know them, too. At any rate, I think I've about quintupled my friend list in the past week or so (91, but who's counting?)
I'm just wondering if I can somehow use this as part of my tenure review. "Well, of course I'm active in the field. Have you like seen my facebook???" And of course I know all these people. Well, maybe not the people who added me as part of the "My name is Matt Barton, too" club. Though that's an awesome club. I'm guessing most of these people added me just 'cuz I'm so...uh. Come to think of it, why did they add me? Ah, to dream.
Anyway, is 91 a good number? Too many? Not enough? Geez, this is eerily familiar. I don't want to become a facebook you-know-what.
What are your criteria for adding or NOT adding people? Do you accept only, or are you out there inviting peeps to befriend you? What are your motives? Does your profile have enough zazz? Because you need zazz, you know.
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The Exponential Friends List
I personally tend not to add people I don't already know in some capacity. When I graduated with my B.A. last fall, I did some serious pruning, cutting people whom I know only slightly, or weren't likely to keep in touch with, or weren't interested in following. A lot of folks fell by the wayside.
And now when I add friends, they're people I actually know. I'm sure many of them will be cut again when I move on. Of all my friends who are FaceBook users, I have one of the lowest counts of friends - simply because I don't want to use FB as a means for lists of people I no longer have an interest in keeping in touch with. (I think I "only" have 50 friends!)
cuttin'
Sounds like a good policy, and it is probably better to only prune and cut people you don't like. I mean, if a friend came at me with a cutting implement, I'd no longer be interested despite the prunes. Yeah, some consolation. "I CUT YOU, *&*@@" but here's a prune. He'd be on the wayside on his backside.
Maybe I should add a bunch of people and then cut them in dastardly ways. "Yo, you know that new picture in your profile--yeah, I cut you today because of that." Or maybe, "You know how you asked me to join that club to save the baby platypuses?" I used a dead baby platypus to cut you, #$#@, hahaha!
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