THANKS Ms. CUTIE PA-TUTIE! Just what I need too, one of them darned Social Media Epertistes seems one can never find on around these day with all the Twittering & Snickering goingz on. Everyone all aboard and let's follow the Pied Piper of Facebook CHOOO-CHOOOOooooOOOOO WHeeeeEEEEEEEeeeeeee
- sofarsoShawn
If you have to worry about friending your boss, you have to wonder if you're at the right job. (I said as much at an SFAMA panel a few weeks ago)
- Louis Gray
It's not the boss I worry about. It's the folks beneath.....
- Sean Kelly
I disagree, Louis. Many, many people should think twice about FB-friending their co-workers, unfiltered. From an HR perspective, it's not always in your best interest to cross the personal/professional line, depending on what kinds of things you (AND your friends/family) post.
- Yvette Ferry
In the end it wouldn't matter. Your friend could one day be your boss. But then again, depending on what you post, perhaps not.
- Nalin Perera
Thought this might be of interest. "Should You 'Friend' Your Boss? Let Your Boss ‘Friend’ You?" As far as I can see, "social-media people" have opinions on this that don't really gel with what happens in real life, among most employers/employees. http://hrdailyadvisor.blr.com/archive...
- Yvette Ferry
I have a coworker that has a policy that the only social network she will connect with current coworkers on is Linked In. After one of us has moved on, she will connect on Facebook. I find it interesting, since I am currently connected with 40-50 other of my current coworkers. I hear about her outside of work activities in idle "water-cooler" chat, so I don't quite understand why the disconnect, but then again, most people are not as open as I am.
- Travis B. Hartwell
Travis: I hate to hijack this thread (it's not mine, and I have no right), but what typically happens is that co-worker connects to co-workers and bosses, and then they come to know know a little too much about her personal life, so they judge her on days when she's not "feeling well" or "going through things". And then there's no wiggle room or ways to express that she's simply having...
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- Yvette Ferry
I want to argue with the author about personalized usage, link reading, and filtering but I can't login to their comment system by phone. Emailed to self for later nerd rage
- Mark Essel
from iPhone
Here in West Hollywood, my best friend of 18 years and his boyfriend are getting married. So yes, I get to be a groomsman at a gay wedding - prop 8 or not. Should be awesome.
- Louis Gray
It was a fantastic ceremony. One of the best weddings I have ever seen. It was traditional Jewish themed, so I am wearing a yarmulke to match the vest and tie. Lots of great friends from my teenage years.
- Louis Gray
from iPhone
Louis, I own a yarmulke as well - my wife brought it for me when she visited Israel
- Jesse Stay
"Robb, this is one feature of SocialToo - not the entirety of SocialToo. The product, as it currently exists, also includes daily statistics of follows and unfollows on Twitter, the ability to send surveys to your social media connections, autofollowing and unfollowing capability, and URL redirection for Facebook vanity URLs, etc. I use the product and am on their board of advisors. This is a good feature to have to fill an existing gap. Should Facebook enable this offer in the future, that’s part of the process, not an end game."
- Louis Gray
Nope - they only do this for fan pages, Holden.
- Louis Gray
Why I am using Peoplebrowsr for real-time search: I can quickly skim through 16 searches with three keystrokes using the right cursor key in just a few seconds. Bam. Zap. Mainlining the net with zero friction. I like it like that.
- Sean McBride
@ sean - using Peoplebrowsr for the same thing. seems a little heavy though.
- michael sean wright
A bit heavy, indeed, but I don't know of any other real-time search service that comes close to providing the ability to navigate so much info so quickly and efficiently. Monitoring dozens of feeds on what is essentially a single screen is a breeze.
- Sean McBride
Sean: now some of the features that were available only through clients such as peoplebrowser can be had natively, making them more accessible to many users :)
- Mike Chelen
That is really the right headline for this FF feature: the fact that it's real-time for all these different sites. FF continues to be a powerful tool, well defined and eminently useful and usable.
- Andy Bakun
the real-time is interesting, but as you stated, since it's limited to only the FriendFeed base, it doesn't seem as powerful as Twitter search. Couldn't they expand to all FriendFeed, all public Facebook, etc? Truly searching real-time from all status across platforms would be scary good.
- Stuart Miniman
"You can sit on the sidelines and see this happening everywhere. In fact, much of the backlash against Twitter of late has been from the early adopter community who has been largely ignored, in favor of the celebrity of the week, making those who pushed the service initially feel like they are unwanted." This part of your post deserves a post on its own. There are many cases thinkable...
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- Alexander van Elsas
What exactly is the problem with Twitter's growth? Who cares if there are accounts with 30K followers and no content? Its not like you are required to follow them. Just ignore them, right?
- Brendan Clancy
Brendan, the problem for me is that 95% of the alert e-mails I get from Twitter are now from bs accounts. Makes the feature unusable, and that is not what I hoped it would be.
- Alexander van Elsas
Alex: From spammers following you? Thats true, that is obnoxious. I just don't understand why going mainstream would make Twitter any less useful than it ever was. As long as you don't go following Ashton and Oprah, you still get what you are looking for.
- Brendan Clancy
I would like to be able to see who is following me, in order for em to make a decision if I would like to follow them as well. This becomes impossible if Twitter isn't willing to get rid of all these spam and fake traffic driver accounts.
- Alexander van Elsas