Facebook Spring Cleaning?
Some people are doing some serious “Spring Cleaning” on their friends lists.
At least that’s what people are calling it. Which has got to concern the higher ups at Facebook including Mark Zukerberg.
I would predict that one person can probably take care of 400 friends. Anymore than that and you run the risk of overwhelming yourself socializing 24/7 just to keep up with “Likes”, comments and status updates.
The other side of the equation would be the Disfranchisement of the friend who never gets spoken to or never receives replies to their status update. It’s true that everyone is very busy, but if you have over 1,000 friends, then you probably won’t be able to pay close attention to those individuals who are truly your friends. Even close relatives can get ignored when users are “Flyin’ high” on cloud nine with thousands of friends. They get this almost Majestic attitude that they rule their online experience. That’s not a real good idea in my opinion. You have to keep your perspective.
There are Facebook users with Quality in mind and users with Quantity. And the problem with Quantity is that it’s for Showboaters only. And when more and more people take on this attitude, then a lot of disenfranchised people are the result.
The only way to slow this trend is for everyone to evaluate not just the quantity of friends they currently have, but to further consider the “Maintenence” factor of those friends. Because they are people you know. Not just pixelized jpegs from somewhere “out there”. They are your friends and family. The root of the problem is we ALL want the attention of others and to be “Popular”. But at some point one must ask “When is enough, enough?”
The very idea of Social Networking is to gain and maintain. Linkedin for example isn’t about warm and fuzzy. And status updates if not responded to are no big deal because it’s a “business” network. However, facebook hits home with people because it is more personal and laced with family photos and activities. So when someone doesn’t respond it’s like saying “I don’t care” and that’s not good.
Keep up with social status updates.
My best advice for anyone involved with Facebook is to never acquire more friends than you can adequately nurture. And since more and more people are adding status updates many times a day – that can be difficult.
Timothy C. Hutchins
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