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Imaginary Facebook Friends

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I know Steve's blogged a bit about Facebook recently but this story about how willing Facebook users are to add "friends" they don't know really made me sit up and take notice. 43% of the sample accepted a friends request from someone they didn't know and 41% divulged some level of personal information.

So if you send me a friend request on Facebook and I don't know you personally, you'll understand if I don't accept.

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  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 13, 2007
    It's the same with Twitter of course; people want to build their "friends" list. Interestingly linked-in seems to be more "professional" about it, every now and again I get an obvious "I don't know you" request (in fact I got one this morning from "an ex-colleague at Nortel", errr, I never worked for Nortel). Mind you it's the adding of imaginary girlfriends that would worry me ....

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    That said, I understand they're easier to get along with on a long-term basis... :-)

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    Craig you got in there while I was writing my comment on Barry's post. As a result my comment looks completely random. :-) I think the concept of marketing via Facebook is an interesting one. And I wholeheatedly agree that marketing, when targetted and relevant isn't intrusive and is usually quite interesting. To the extent that we often don't even class it in the advertising / marketing category, only attaching that label to the "bad" stuff. A bigger problem I think people are wrestling with is the sheer number of different "communication services". Once upon a time email was the "problem". Now we have blogs, feeds, Facebook, LinkedIn, IM, Twitter and a hundred other things to contend with. I certainly can't cope with them all and don't attempt to. But I am plagued by a sense of "what am I missing out on". :-)

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    Of course Craig is on my twitter. And my MSN. And my network on LinkedIn. Facebook I refuse to join. The question is really is Craig imaginary? If so what foetid mind would think of that? And why aren't you on our networks on LinkedIn? Why don't you like us? Why? Why?

  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
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  • Anonymous
    August 14, 2007
    I didn't mean to jump in and wreck the imaginary girlfriends thing, honest!  I saw it after if hit submit..and did wonder, but only for a second! I totally agree with you, and I think Barry will to, that the profusion of social networking sites and communication mechanisms that we have to "check" is getting out of hand...I have a blog post in production about this...we need some decent aggregation mechanism for "all of this stuff".   I'm getting my mileage out of Facebook, though.  It has put me in touch with extended family that I would only usually see 1-2 times per year.  Now I'm able to watch what they're up to as and when I login to Facebook.  Ditto for some tech folks and devs, including a few in Microsoft.  I think the photograph when not faked (http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p=637 and http://www.craigmurphy.com/blog/?p=622) helps a lot - it makes the Facebook message that bit more personal, it's not just a "newbie" e-mailing in...here's a message with a profile attached. Twitter - I didn't get it when I signed up back in early March.  I've been using it in anger for 10 or days now, it's worth running with it for a while to try it, Mike, honest.  It seems to bring together a "live community" feel - everybody who you're following gets to share your experiences and your pain if you so wish.  It opened my eyes this week, instead of communicating with folks on an infrequent basis, I can see what they're up to throughout the day...and comment upon it too.  Give it ago, if only for a short while!

  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2007
    I can't see why anyone would want the level of detail about me that Twitter provides, unless they were also the kind of person likely to boil my bunny rabbit on the stove,and frankly I try to avoid those kind of people. Maybe I'm just too old to get it.

  • Anonymous
    August 15, 2007
    I'm with you Ian. I had a browser yesterday and what struck me was why people would take time to enter such mundane information about their lives. "I'm watching such and such on TV" or "I'm wearing a skirt for the first time in years" (a subject close to my heart as I somehow have to fit in my kilt in about 7 weeks time :-)).