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Friends of Friends, or who the hell are you?

Posted by Chris under Social Networking, Twitter, Uncategorized

So you are a bit of a pioneer and you’ve been there done that with Pownce, Twitter and like me are trying to like Plurk but aren’t having much success.

Well this is less about which platform you use and more about the friending phenominom. Now Forrester has their ladder of social networking users and a great profile tool at that. No what I’m talking about is pure and simple friending. And while I’m a great advocate, participator and even strategist for social networking their are a couple of friending profiles that annoy me.

First are the collectors. Now these ae not the Scoble and Calacanis of the world, whom people seek out, no these’s Collectors actively search out their prey Come on how can you possibly know 500 people and whether it’s LinkedIn or Facebook how come every day I see you’ve added another five people to your circle of trust.

Next are the twitter spam friends. You know who you are. Are you following me with your single post: promising love, free ipod, or cash in my attic. Wake up I’ll never see your post unless I follow you or maybe one of my friends will choose to follow you and tap into that free…

But I guess that’s todays wild world of social networking. Meanwhile may i suggest trying out WhoShouldIFollow to find suggested Twitter friends. Make sure your Twitter profile is set to public and then try this out.

Now you can find those 500 friends but I bet they’ll be more relevant.