I Know People

Posted on April 25, 2009
Filed Under Personal, Random Rant, Web 2.0 Stuff | 3 Comments

There are rules that apply when I accept or request Facebook friends.  These rules consist of:

  1. Do I know you or have I met you?
  2. If “no” is the answer to question #1, then are we associated business or network-wise or do we share a common bond over a specific chronic condition?
  3. Do we have a mutual friend and will most likely meet soon?
  4. Are we Tweeps?
  5. Have you made a donation to Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation?

I am not a FB friend collector to boost my friend count up only to make myself look more popular.  Therefore, one of the above rules must apply.  And I refuse to be the type of person that says “I don’t even know half of my Facebook friends” in a stuck-up manner.  So I started a project.  Call it my Facebook Project.  Although I really do need a creative name for this project, so feel free to share your two cents worth once you hear me out.

I want to know my friends.  When it comes to social networking, I subscribe to Jeff Turner’s theory of YEO, You Engaging Others.  Therefore if we are FB friends, be prepared to be tagged.  I have created an album titled “I Know My Facebook Friends” and hopefully you’re in it.  If not, and we run into each other while out and about or at a convention, don’t be surprised when I snap our picture from my Blackberry.   It will take some time to get everyone in the album, but it will be a challenge that I look forward to.

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3 Responses to “I Know People”

  1. I Know People | diabetes on April 26th, 2009 1:08 am

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  2. Patrick D. on April 26th, 2009 9:24 am

    Look, if you don’t want to be friends anymore, just say it. Don’t come up with this convoluted method of getting rid of me. :P

    On a serious note, I sort of have the same policy. We have to have ‘met’ to be my Facebook friend. It’s one of the places online where I readily share family details and hence, a little more secured.

    ‘Met’ with quotations around it means met in some way. I have some friends who are fellow bloggers. I’ve never met them in person, but we know details about each other and I would easily call them friends.

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  3. Erik on May 2nd, 2009 2:00 pm

    Hi – came across your blog from landlord-success.com… while researching. Thinking about getting involved in rental properties.

    Rules 2, 1/2 of 4, and 5 also apply. Thanks for all the good info

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