It took me a while this morning to confirm a whole bunch more Facebook requests, but now I’m ahead of [Ramesh] with 894!
For the life of me, I still don’t understand what Facebook is for though.
When you figure it out, let me know.
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It’s just a low-cost (both in money & time) way of keeping track of the lives of people you genuinely are interested in but don’t spend time speaking to regularly. “Oh, cousin Susy posted pictures of her Rome trip.” “I see David is seeing someone.”
My Facebook stream (just today) tells me that my law school friend Yugo was admitted to the New York bar yesterday and that my friend Jon is looking for a job. That’s something I wanted to know.
Jonah’s problem is that he has approved way too many people, so his daily updates include 70 people he may know and be interested in and 824 people he’s met twice. Too much noise to signal to be worth it. Or maybe it’s Facebook’s problem for not having multiple Tiers of “Friends”.
I noted to him in an email that when you have a thousand “friends,” the value of being one is diminished considerably.
I recently jettisoned most of my Facebook friends and kept mostly only people I’d actually met. Of the two exceptions now, I had jettisoned one but she asked to be let back in.
Now my total is lucky 13. Much easier to keep track of.