Comments on: Your Digital Friends: Less is More

By: Ben

Ben — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 20:39:03 +0000

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.

By: Adam

Adam — Fri, 13 Feb 2009 04:29:02 +0000

Thanks for taking the time to write this. I really enjoyed it.

-Adam

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 04:10:54 +0000

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.

By: Ontario Emperor

Ontario Emperor — Sat, 12 Jan 2008 00:48:58 +0000

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.

By: Voyagerfan5761

Voyagerfan5761 — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:24:35 +0000

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.

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?

By: owen

owen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 20:24:00 +0000

wow thats got to be a spam bot

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:56:38 +0000

OK, send the hotties my way

And who pays for phone nowadays?

By: owen

owen — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:45:28 +0000

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?

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:29:43 +0000

Agree, that’s why my number is in the 2-300 range:-)

By: David Bradley

David Bradley — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:27:28 +0000

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!