Comments on: Managing Facebook Friends

By: Bobby Hamasaki

Bobby Hamasaki — Wed, 13 May 2009 10:41:56 +0000

I just use facebook and twitter to drive traffic to my blog. and that’s quite help. I just added some people that i don’t even know so i can invite them to join my group before they visit my blog.

Bobby
http://www.inspiration-inbox.com

By: Mark

Mark — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 07:46:12 +0000

sorry, I borrowed your title “Managing Facebook Friends” and I’ve got a discussion goin’ on a Facebook Note:
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=6462244157&ref=mf

By: DurhamDad

DurhamDad — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 19:07:44 +0000

I use facebook only for personal family use. I have read about the use of facebook for marketing but don’t know what the strategy is. With Stumble Upon, I understand what is happening. I guess the idea is to be an influencer.

By: margie

margie — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 16:13:45 +0000

This could be a good tool, thank you as always for the tips. They say that demographically more and more thirty plus folks are going to Facebook … which I can understand, as graphically MySpace is headache-inducing.

By: Maya Norton

Maya Norton — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 15:59:08 +0000

I’ve read the 150 estimate for the ultimate number of friends you can really have within a social circle. I am above 100 now, keeping it limited to real life people, and I have to say there are at least 100 people more who I regularly search for and would like to add.

I resisted adding Facebook, but did so in September when someone invited me who I wouldn’t have been in contact with otherwise.

I have to say, my friends list is hardly unmanageable, but Facebook does need to develop stronger strategies for categorizing users and maximizing and limiting abilities when appropriate.

Personally I would be fine to never receive another Fun Wall or Super Wall post again in my life. Some of those applications have the value of a chain letter forward, while others are quite simple and creative, such as the Growing Gifts application (my favorite).

There is a reason why we look to Facebook for the future of social media. Their strategy and value has much to offer those of us looking to expand in that direction and caring about where it will lead.

By: Brad Coy

Brad Coy — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 10:46:40 +0000

No, I don’t have 5k friends and hope I never will frankly. I found this application very easy to use. After setting it up, I whizzed through it dividing my peeps into different groups. This has been helpful in getting an overview of the people I do business with. Before this I used an app called inner-circle (which just sounds super pretentious).

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:38:54 +0000

Finally a great feature comes in handy, no more poking in the next couple hours

By: engtech @ IDT

engtech @ IDT — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 05:29:12 +0000

I’m going to have to try this. I’ve been using InnerCircle for a bit, and it’s fairly useful.

kinda glad I turned down a job offer that was planning to build an FB app like this.

By: Ian McKenzie

Ian McKenzie — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 03:17:49 +0000

5,000??? The standard statistic puts the circle of acquaintances at an average of 150 people. I have 244 friends at Facebook and figure that’s a handful to manage. I’m not sure how you’d keep current with 5,000. The Friends List is going to be handy for separating my personal friends from my work connections.

By: Chris Thomson

Chris Thomson — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 02:34:00 +0000

This is great for me. I accept everyones request, but the people I don’t know (or don’t trust) I add as a limited friend. Now I can group the ones I don’t know together, the ones I know from online (twitter, etc.), the ones from middle school, and the ones from high school. This is great! :)

By: walter wimberly

walter wimberly — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 01:00:16 +0000

I have to agree – I don’t “friend’ on facebook, myspace, etc. unless we know each other, or are at least in some of the same circles. Even then an on-line friend isn’t necessarily a real friend. Maybe I’ll never have 5000 “friends” or even 500 – but if you have to start managing your friends (on-line or real) you might need to better quantify.

I guess they’d never take my suggestion of acquaintances and friends to differentiate – of course that might be insulting to some.

By: Dave

Dave — Fri, 21 Dec 2007 00:42:23 +0000

I’m looking forward to the day that they allow you to let different groups of friends see different parts of your profile. From what I’ve read it seems that will be coming up in 2008. It will help those of us who have real life friends on Facebook as well as another set of internet-type friends.

By: vhxn.com

vhxn.com — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 22:29:58 +0000

Darren How many firends you had in Facebook – http://www.vhxn.com

By: Brian Brandt

Brian Brandt — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 21:31:43 +0000

Its incredible how fast you actually can get friends. And incredible how many people you actually know…

I joined facebook a week ago, and I have already 70 friends, all people I know from before. And I haven’t been searching for people yet, that is only other people finding me.

By: Reverse Funnel System

Reverse Funnel System — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:34:40 +0000

Thats nice would love fo have in fb 5000 friends :D

By: Ruchir

Ruchir — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 19:29:30 +0000

Just 5,000 friends? I never knew there was a cap limit…

By: Michael Grove

Michael Grove — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 17:36:44 +0000

Im not the big fan of Facebook, but maybe i should try using it for a while..

By: Mark

Mark — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 15:47:01 +0000

David,
My Fan Page (FacebookEconomy.com) has tips listed on it for how to use FB for personal publishing. (Posted a while back so you may have to scroll thru discussions/posted items).

By: SpicePuppy

SpicePuppy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 14:24:43 +0000

Is “friends” really the right word when you have so many that you don’t know most of their names?

By: Deb

Deb — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 13:54:45 +0000

Hmm, 5000 “friends. Anybody up for a rousing round of “The Kevin Bacon Game” (Six Degrees)?