It's the notion of "active" relationships you have to worry about. How active can you be if you have several thousand contacts across dozens of social networks, as some of the so-called uber-bloggers do? Each "friend" must get a couple of seconds a week, if that of activity. Unless these guys never do any real work and just spend their time Powncing their latest Scrabulous scores to their Twitter list!
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Zoli Erdos
· 1 year ago
Agree, that's why my number is in the 2-300 range:-)
owen
· 1 year ago
mostly hotties and old classmates. At least it saves you on phone bills from calling them. So times you just can't meet up personally and the thread of friendship can be maintain virtually forever with the right network and tools.
I'd say a thread is better than none at all?
Zoli Erdos
· 1 year ago
OK, send the hotties my way :-)
And who pays for phone nowadays?
owen
· 1 year ago
wow thats got to be a spam bot
Voyagerfan5761
· 1 year ago
Facebook is inserting ads in the news feed now, which really annoys me. Advertising platform indeed; too much so, if you ask me. Thank goodness for AdBlock Plus in Firefox. :D
That ClustrMap is interesting. It mirrors rather closely my map on http://whos.amung.us/show/lbtulrxh (sorry, but you'll have to click a tab - I couldn't get a direct link to the maps tab), which has lots of visitors in Europe and the Eastern U.S., but it drops off (not quite as dramatically) in the Western U.S. Is it a tech blog thing?
Ontario Emperor
· 1 year ago
Re ClustrMap - part of this has to do with population. Most of the western states are very sparsely populated relative to the eastern states. I don't know if population accounts for everything, however.
Voyagerfan5761
· 1 year ago
Could it be something to do with Easterners being more savvy (cosmopolitan?) than citizens in the West? (Sorry, I don't know about the UK.) Maybe there are more tech-savvy people on the East Coast. There's a hole in the middle of my map, but California, Oregon, and Washington also send a fair number of visitors.
Adam
· 10 months ago
Thanks for taking the time to write this. I really enjoyed it.
-Adam
Ben
· 10 months ago
Seams like some use the social networking tools just to reach a very large audience rather than actually build relationships. As social networking gets integrated with business tools, such as CRM, limiting our 'friends' may be the only way to get our work done.
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db
I'd say a thread is better than none at all?
And who pays for phone nowadays?
That ClustrMap is interesting. It mirrors rather closely my map on http://whos.amung.us/show/lbtulrxh (sorry, but you'll have to click a tab - I couldn't get a direct link to the maps tab), which has lots of visitors in Europe and the Eastern U.S., but it drops off (not quite as dramatically) in the Western U.S. Is it a tech blog thing?
-Adam