Comments on: Being a Good Social Media Friend and Finding Other Good Ones

By: Erica DeWolf

Erica DeWolf — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 01:27:49 +0000

I love your honesty…friends in social media are usually not really your “friends-” most of the time. I’ve made a lot of great online friends and business contacts through social media. Great post- thanks!

By: Ryan Merket

Ryan Merket — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 06:33:44 +0000

This is why I like Facebook. For the most part, all of my “friends” in Facebook are my real friends.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:30:11 +0000

Thank you for this warm article.

By: Yura

Yura — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 02:23:41 +0000

Though you said the point of the article isn’t ‘friends are not for voting’, but the content of the post does tend towards valuable people you socialize with. Hence, your friends are people that have the same interests as you and value quality over quantity. That is good, real friends in my book, not ‘friends for voting’

By: Jeremy Neal

Jeremy Neal — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:17:47 +0000

Hey! Good to know where to find you! I’ve seen you on Subbitt, and I clicked through here from a Twitter post by Maki. -Jeremy (jnbammer)

By: Alex

Alex — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:11:22 +0000

Excellent. Many of us can benefit from this article.

By: Jeff Quipp

Jeff Quipp — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 14:56:33 +0000

Really nice piece JD … well done! Agree completely! That’s a really interesting find re: blind voting.

By: spostareduro

spostareduro — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:47:12 +0000

MyBlogLog DOES allow you to claim someone as ‘friend’ vs ‘contact’.

You left out something.

It’s easy to lose even a ‘good social media friend’ when you differ with another social media person whom they are following that happens to kiss their *ss more regularly. So, if you want to keep your ‘good social media friends’ then make sure you kiss *ss regularly and never have an opinion.

By: JD Rucker

JD Rucker — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:47:03 +0000

@Mark – Thanks! Contact probably is a better term for it. Wouldn’t it be nice if a social media site let you separate “friends” from “contacts”? Hmmmm.

@Kristen – You’re absolutely right. I often mentioned “friends” in quotes because we know when someone has 400 mutual “friends”, they are really just fans, or as Mark said, contacts.

By: Kristen

Kristen — Sun, 30 Mar 2008 19:05:25 +0000

I think “friend” is what happens after you have communicated on a regular basis. Just voting for stuff and promoting their posts does not make “friends” maybe just “fans”.