Does anyone give a damn how many so called ‘friends’ we have?
When all the latest and greatest social sites started to take shape and grow, it was all about how many contacts you had, none more so than with Linked (showing off your business connectedness), facebook, Twitter et al. All of whom based their growth model largely on the ‘look at me’ factor in terms of popularity.
Does anyone really give a damn? How many of your contacts do you either connect with more than once per year in a meaningful way or actually know who they are? I have friends, followers and contacts who I can’t even remember meeting or ever talking to. in reality, what we have here with these connected lists is just a great big address book. Period.
What would be useful would be a global facility which interacts across all mediums and site where you can flag your true contacts, (privately) to help keep track instead of being swamped with utter insanity of mass meaningless contacts.
