Comments on: Follow Friday is on Life Support

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 22:01:36 +0000

Alex -

Wow! That’s an interesting article. Never thought of social networks in terms of working memory. Thanks for the comment.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 21:54:03 +0000

Caroline -

Glad you like the blog! Agreed. Without anything to put the Follow Friday list in context or make it personal, which is ostensibly what this practice is all about, it does seem pretty “spammy.”

Thanks!

By: Alexander Liss

Alexander Liss — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 18:06:24 +0000

Sounds like the classic case of information overload. Reminds of some other things I’ve heard about twitter recently. More specifically, the vast majority of tweets are pointless babble (which is probably true), and using Twitter can make you “dumber” while Facebook makes you smarter (http://news.cnet.com/8301-17852_3-10346125-71.html)

By: Caroline

Caroline — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:50:05 +0000

I actually never really got it, unless there was a reason why the person was recommended or all of the follows were categorized somehow (i.e. a Follow Friday about Free Stuff to Do in LA or something like that). Otherwise it really just seems spammy.

BTW – loving the blog Kevin!