instant twitter poll: look at your IM buddy list -- are there people online right now and you can't remember who they are?

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“instant twitter poll: look at your IM buddy list -- are there people online right now and you can't remember who they are?”

July 6 at 11:28 am - Link

Nope. Constant weeding keeps the IM garden under control - Stephen Pierzchala

Maybe we need new social software to fix this problem. We could call it FriendWeed. - Richard Eriksson

A few of them, but not the majority - Corvida via twhirl

I don't really use IM anymore unless its at work and yes, there are people at work that IM me and I don't know who they are. - Andrea Baker

I asked the question because I never remove people from my IM list... so over the years I have accumulated people I don't talk to at all anymore, though I know who they are, and there are also people on there who are... well, people I don't remember at all. Though maybe if I chatted with them I'd remember. I find this phenomenon interesting, in a "drag your social history with you" kind of way. - Stephanie Booth