Comments on: Fatty fatty facebook.

By: Laurie Cicotello

Laurie Cicotello — Sun, 21 Sep 2008 06:01:17 +0000

Chi.mp is developing something that does exactly what you are describing. Different layers for different friends. Bosses and business friends see this much … high school friends see only this much … best friends since college see more and the person in bed next to you can see it all. It’s kind of a weird URL, but you send everyone one .mp name and it sorts it from there … chi.mp is the big new thing.

By: Seamus Anthony

Seamus Anthony — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 05:13:33 +0000

Word.

By: Matías Halles

Matías Halles — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 16:05:44 +0000

You can have lists of friends now in facebook.

bai.

By: Tara Hunt

Tara Hunt — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:47:56 +0000

I’m feeling the same way, although I still find Facebook a useful tool for my events and groups…but it doesn’t scale, that’s for sure. Email? Well, I just want to cry anytime I open gMail.

By: John Wooton

John Wooton — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:44:21 +0000

I agree, especially with email.

I hope my FB friend request didn’t cause this.

By: Clintus

Clintus — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 08:33:14 +0000

That’s what it’s come to. As the social networks and tools become more mainstream, more and more people get involved and want to be your “friend”. And with all those friend requests come the flood of emails to litter your inbox.

I have recently felt this myself, which is hard to admit because I live for this shit. But when it’s all said and done there are your friends and there are your FRIENDS. <3

By: Dave Mora

Dave Mora — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 07:49:27 +0000

I feel the same way but the weird thing is not with social sites. I have a cell phone but I rarely answer it. Checking my voicemail is even worse. I just checked it and hitting 7 just to erase them with out listening because they are 3 months old becomes a job in its self.

E-mail is checked as frequently as I pick up my phone, Myspace, Pownce, and Facebook are places I login every few months just to confirm my Login.

Sadly for me Twitter is the primary form of communication and you can txt me directly on my phone. If someone sends me a message any other way I will reply between 3 to 8 months.

People that know have come to accept the extra layer of crap I have to put them through.

But, the extra effort they put makes it all worth it when they actually reach me. Well after they forgive me and no longer are annoyed of the “Mission” they had to go through to reach me.

Well I am done with this very long post. I just hope you moderate them first so you can decide to post it or not.

I just hate to be that long comment that everyone hates.

P.S. I like your new layout. Well it has been a while since I been here so maybe is not so new anymore. Either way I like it

By: luberjz

luberjz — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 03:23:40 +0000

I believe that there’s a natural limit to the number of friends/acquaintances a person can maintain at any point in his or her life. Large social networking sites have fooled people into thinking that they can extend that limit, but of coarse they can’t. It’s analogous to a computer’s ability to simultaneous run multiple programs convincing people that they too can be “efficient multi-taskers”. Lack of focus, overwhelming emails, and unmanageable lists of ‘friends’ are what happen when we ignore our attentional bottlenecks and spread ourselves too thin.

By: ChiliMac

ChiliMac — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 02:16:43 +0000

Dump all your Facebook friends. At least the ones that aren’t real life friends. Make that your own space. If you want Facebook contact with your internet friends make a fan page. Just a thought.