I love each and every one of you. But I already have two hundred facebook friends, thanks to various high schools, colleges, graduate schools, jobs, and urban social networks. I reserve friending people on facebook for those I actually know in real life; otherwise, my feed gets overwhelmed with the lives of people I've never met. If I haven't responded to your facebook friend request, that's why--it's not you, it's me.
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A comment directed at me. But if you came to all of Reihan's parties we would know each other in person.
Only TWO HUNDRED friends?
How are you EVER going to score big in Mob Wars with that?
You need at least 500 friends, more than that if some of them don't always accept your invitations.
Feel free to add me if you see reason and get ambitious :-)
I'm here to prune your tree, lady, but I think in your case it's too late and we will just have to cut you down so the rot doesn't spread to the rest of the orchard.
“These laws, drawn by myself, laid the axe to the root of Pseudoaristocracy.”
"To annul this privilege, and instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger, than benefit, to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society, & scattered with equal hand through all it's conditions, was deemed essential to a well ordered republic."
God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty.... And what country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time, that this people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to the facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.
Maris McHilton - Airhead.
I just got onto this facebook thing... it's like a drug. If it's anything like LinkedIn, though, I'll add a bunch of people, then lose interest. Or I'll sit and poke my friends until they all block me.
I sort of assumed that since you were a blogger it could be treated like friending a band. Most bands I've interacted with on Facebook or MySpace are more than happy to friend or be friended by people they've never met because they want the publicity.
What do you do for people who aren't planning to be friends with you, but do want to express themselves as fans of your blog?
For THAT she should get a Myspace account - or use the new Facebook "fan" functionality (not an expert on it, don't have enough fans :-).
I understand what she means about crowding out on Facebook - I friended about a dozen people purely for a game, and now all the friend updates seem to be about THEIR lives .....