Comments on: The awkwardness of de-friending http://www.sparkminute.com/2008/11/25/the-awkwardness-of-de-friending/ David Spark's segment on Green 960 AM (formerly 960, The Quake) Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:23:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: The etiquette of defriending « Media Update – The Blog http://www.sparkminute.com/2008/11/25/the-awkwardness-of-de-friending/comment-page-1/#comment-284 The etiquette of defriending « Media Update – The Blog Fri, 26 Jun 2009 11:08:04 +0000 http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=441#comment-284 [...] however, is the vision you have for your social network and how you express this to your contacts. David Spark discusses that, when he interviewed people about their reasons for defriending, they could explain [...] [...] however, is the vision you have for your social network and how you express this to your contacts. David Spark discusses that, when he interviewed people about their reasons for defriending, they could explain [...]

]]> By: Carri Bugbee http://www.sparkminute.com/2008/11/25/the-awkwardness-of-de-friending/comment-page-1/#comment-283 Carri Bugbee Thu, 27 Nov 2008 00:24:09 +0000 http://www.sparkminute.com/?p=441#comment-283 The immediate anecdote to the “pain” of being de-friended is to have so many friends you barely notice and don’t really care. Long-term, the idea of turning down the noise and hearing mostly from a smaller group of friends (within your larger network) makes the most sense. I’ve yet to see any network besides Facebook offer a fine-tuned feature like this. I have to admit, I’ve been surprised a few times when people have de-friended me, but before Quitter came along, I didn’t even know. Perhaps ignorance is bliss! But if you want to be informed, the positive way to look at it is that now you have more room in your network for people who are more interesting without overloading your synapses. :-) Carri Bugbee http://twitter.com/carribugbee www.bigdealpr.com The immediate anecdote to the “pain” of being de-friended is to have so many friends you barely notice and don’t really care. Long-term, the idea of turning down the noise and hearing mostly from a smaller group of friends (within your larger network) makes the most sense. I’ve yet to see any network besides Facebook offer a fine-tuned feature like this.

I have to admit, I’ve been surprised a few times when people have de-friended me, but before Quitter came along, I didn’t even know. Perhaps ignorance is bliss! But if you want to be informed, the positive way to look at it is that now you have more room in your network for people who are more interesting without overloading your synapses. :-)

Carri Bugbee
http://twitter.com/carribugbee
http://www.bigdealpr.com

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