http://www.stephaniebambam.net/followers-are-not-your-friends/ A Journal of Random Things Fri, 09 Dec 2011 19:03:33 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.stephaniebambam.net/followers-are-not-your-friends//comment-page-1#comment-345 Nick Sun, 20 Feb 2011 03:06:31 +0000 http://www.stephaniebambam.net/?p=522#comment-345 Hmm... Very interesting article! I personally dont mind it when spam accounts follow me (@BushKoala), yet it is slightly disapointing to know that what I tweet won't get read by anyone, as usually the accounts seem to be computer generated. Dont get me wrong, I'm not after 'quality' users, it's just I do prefer to know that "real" people are reading my tweets. Concerning FaceBook: I did a lot of contemplating how I wanted to use my FaceBook. At first I was only going to add and accept real friends, but after a while I noticed that seemed quite impossible. (If some guy from your English class ads you that you're not friends and you don't accept him, it would seem funny explaining to him that you don't want to accept him because he's bot a real friend.) So fortunately there are now 'friend-groups'. I put all my friends into a friend group and now only they show up in my news/live feed and only for them am I shown online! So basically I just get the updates from who I want to see, and the others (even though having accepted them) are more like followers on FaceBook. - I dont see their posts and I'm always offline to them and they are always offline to me! Hmm… Very interesting article! I personally dont mind it when spam accounts follow me (@BushKoala), yet it is slightly disapointing to know that what I tweet won’t get read by anyone, as usually the accounts seem to be computer generated. Dont get me wrong, I’m not after ‘quality’ users, it’s just I do prefer to know that “real” people are reading my tweets.
Concerning FaceBook: I did a lot of contemplating how I wanted to use my FaceBook. At first I was only going to add and accept real friends, but after a while I noticed that seemed quite impossible. (If some guy from your English class ads you that you’re not friends and you don’t accept him, it would seem funny explaining to him that you don’t want to accept him because he’s bot a real friend.) So fortunately there are now ‘friend-groups’. I put all my friends into a friend group and now only they show up in my news/live feed and only for them am I shown online! So basically I just get the updates from who I want to see, and the others (even though having accepted them) are more like followers on FaceBook. – I dont see their posts and I’m always offline to them and they are always offline to me!

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