On Facebook apps and friend requests
So...while I am experimenting with Facebook Apps myself (see http://apps.facebook.com/bmannconsulting -- but really, that just allows login to this website), I am unlikely to add arbitrary Facebook App X. The only ones I'm interested in are ones that connect out to the Internet: random little apps that live only inside FB are less interesting to me. And actually, ones that let users add content but then you HAVE to be a member to even see the content...yeah, yeah...I get the viral thing, it's just annoying!
That means a lot of "ignore this" from me.
Also....I'm only adding friends that I've actually met in person OR spent a significant amount of time interacting with online. This is a long standing rule of mine that I've used for years.
If you're a friend of a friend that I've met once or twice: don't feel bad, we're "connected" through that friend of mine. That's how these social network things work.
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I too have been playing with Facebook and applying what I call 'Boris's rule' when it comes to 'friends'. I'm a little confused on facebook by the profile page, friends status updates page and the facebook homepage when I am logged in. Also there is the friends status rss feed which doesn't seem to keep up with the website version/homepage version.
Other than that it's fun. I did get a facebook message from someone I didn't particularly want to hear from. A little quandary in that it was family related, but I'm moving closer to deleting it and moving on!
For the first time I'm I've actually turned down some friend requests, normally i explain why and point them at linkedin where I'm more liberal on such things!
Generally though I've been amazed at how different many of the people I know on facebook are to each other! It's fun, eh!
Stewart Marshall @ The MooseHat Blog
thanks for sharing a hard
thanks for sharing a hard fast rule you've created - I'll try this hat on and I suppose you've done your due diligence by letting people know by posting here.
what are your thoughts in regards to classifying the weight of relationships? do you feel its completely arbitrary and just segments your network? how about networks based on context? as in different ways of looking at your network? imagine pivots based on length of relationship, type, proximity both physically and mentally - would this get complex too quickly?
Different networks
Niche networks may come in here, or really just different sites as contexts: that is, some people get added in LinkedIn as business connections, but not in Facebook.
Plaxo (and LinkedIn, although not as explicit) are making this easier by letting you specify a couple of different types of connections.
But frankly, different types of connections are too hard for the average Internet user -- Flickr's contact/friend/family is about the right level of complexity.