Social Networking: Rethinking Productivity (Blog)

[Savage]

Use this thread to discuss the following entry from Steve Pavlina's blog:

Social Networking: Rethinking Productivity

[Michelle]

You're composting! Wonderful!

[Algernon]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

I’m maxed out at 5,000 Facebook friends with a waiting list of 600 more friend requests I can’t approve until some people drop off.

Really? And here I thought "I can't"* was not part of your Vocabulary.

You (among others) taught me to be fearless (and now I AM!).

So I now return the favor and teach you to be more creative:

Purge 1000 (or more) fair-weather Facebook "friends" who haven't communicated (positively) in over a week or a month (whatever it takes).

Be tougher with old friends and gentler with new friends!

("You don't have time for me? You're dead to me! Get your ass out of my apartment & take your over-processed food with you!")

Think it over.

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* Also I. Kant, a philosopher who did not believe in Truth, only "opinion".

[Algernon]

Originally Posted by Michelle

Wonderful!

I hope you are told how Beautiful you are several times a day!

Will you be in Vegas any time soon?

(Switzerland is a bit far to travel for free hugs.)

[Michelle]

Originally Posted by Algernon

I hope you are told how Beautiful you are several times a day!

Will you be in Vegas any time soon?

(Switzerland is a bit far to travel for free hugs.)

Wow! You just made my afternoon!

I will be at the CGW in January and am more than happy to give you a free hug then.

[Melchior]

Aahhhh!! Why am I still here!!!

*shuffles off to more productive things, like sleeping*

[cacheborn]

Interesting insights. Twitter and Facebook are my favorites at the moment. It's feels great to connect with people who share similar ideas and values.

Can't understand the 5K limit for facebook though, why can't u have unlimited friends? memory problems?

[Algernon]

Originally Posted by Michelle

I will be at the CGW in January and am more than happy to give you a free hug then.

Only one???

I suggest you change your plane ticket to a one-way.

Vegas is, after all, the world capital of the coming Paradise on Earth.

[Ben Mural]

I like the idea of approaching social networking with a purpose. I think social networking like Facebook can be a negative addiction for me when I peruse it aimlessly. One habit I am working on changing is my tendency to check facebook repeatedly for updates from my friends while very rarely communicating anything myself. Becoming more proactive in my online relationships by sharing more of myself and giving more of myself to others could help me deepen relationships and make social networking more productive.

[Michelle]

Originally Posted by Algernon

Only one???

I suggest you change your plane ticket to a one-way.

Vegas is, after all, the world capital of the coming Paradise on Earth.

Let's start with one, and go from there

I am really looking forward to Vegas! *Hugs*

[Trezker]

I have connected twitter to facebook so that I can post stuff on twitter, then I use facebook to discuss tweets. They work rather nicely together.

I'm quite restrictive on what kind of people I follow. I think Steve's rate of tweeting is just right. There's only about a handful of people I follow that use twitter about the same rate, the rest write less frequently.

Don't know how many I could follow. A few more would probably be ok, but then my feed would reach the maximum daily quota I'm ready to put into reading my feed.

[AdamA]

When you post about your goals publicly, other people in your social network can hold you accountable.

Hmm...I like that, I've never used it that way before. It took me awhile to begin using social networking, I've kind of debated on whether it was the best use of time. Sometimes I find myself surfing the Internet to boot.

Plus, I prefer a face to face interaction. But it's good for keeping up with friends who aren't in the immediate area.

I'd be curious if other people find social networking too distracting....

[James81]

I'm torn on the social networking thing.

Let's take facebook/myspace for an example.

On the one hand, I limit myself to adding people that I would actually like to reconnect/connect with. As such, my friends list is fairly low (think I have about 50 friends on each). I see people with 300-500 friends and I think "hmmm, are they really connecting with these people or do they just 'collect' friends to make themselves feel better about themselves?"

On the other hand, I think having more people on your friends list is beneficial in the ways that Steve talks about in his article, especially when it comes to business connections.

I imagine that being torn on this issue means there's something there that I haven't resolved, but haven't quite figured out what that is.

[tylersch]

whoo hoo! i was mentioned in this blog post! haha hey Steve this is Tyler, the guy at 6flags, great post btw! i love all the random possiblities for connections with people social network sites opens up, like the couchsurfer you mentioned in the beggining of post, it gives more interest, something out of the ordinary, to sometimes mechanical connections between people in life.

[Savage]

Originally Posted by tylersch

whoo hoo! i was mentioned in this blog post! haha hey Steve this is Tyler, the guy at 6flags, great post btw! i love all the random possiblities for connections with people social network sites opens up, like the couchsurfer you mentioned in the beggining of post, it gives more interest, something out of the ordinary, and sometimes mechanical connections between people in life.

Hello again, Tyler.

Random spontaneous connections are fun. They certainly keep me on my toes. Makes the world seem a lot smaller, like everywhere you go, you're surrounded by family.