"It can thus be shown that people who add friends or followers (or any other type of connection) without any type of discrimination are actually decreasing the value of the network (by decreasing the number of existing subgroups)."
"The people collecting virtual pseudo friends are actually transforming social networks like Twitter into a tragedy of the commons." both quotes from Mário Valente great post about social networks: http://mv.asterisco.pt/cat.cgi?Why%20Pseudo%20Friends%20Decrease%20Social%20Network%20Values On twitter I only follow people with at least one of these conditions: - I've met personally - I've read them or their blog before - They're near me physically - They rant about topics that I want to know/learn/talk, like: amazon web services, mobile services or technology, systems or software and startups So, I'm currently following about 260 people, which is a lot and since I read what everyone writes, I should cut some of them to increase my interest on those areas above described. //VD _______________________________________________ tce mailing list tce@lists.paradigma.pt http://lists.paradigma.pt/mailman/listinfo/tce
