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Re: Bourland Has Me Asking - How Do You Measure the Value of a Facebook Friend?

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Sun, 26 Aug 2007 18:57:12 -0000

Thanks Warren. The discussion of what value we have when we befriend someone is an excellent one, and upcoming-- I feel like it's a different discussion for a different mentality. I'd been waiting for someone whoe embodies that mentality to frame the discussion around besides Jeremiah - only becuse I talk about him so much. Stay tuned and thanks for coming by again!

Re: Bourland Has Me Asking - How Do You Measure the Value of a Facebook Friend?

Warren Whitlock — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 13:42:54 -0000

Great question Tinu.

But I'd re-frame it and ask

"What is the value you can add by becoming someone's friend?"

If you go in with this attitude, your ROI will skyrocket.

I can see from your activity that you "get it".. As long as we seek to help others, we'll be the kind of freinds that attract greatness.

See you on FB

Warren Whitlock
http://warrenwhitlock.com/facebook

Re: Bourland Has Me Asking - How Do You Measure the Value of a Facebook Friend?

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:58:41 -0000

Hey Andy,

Yeah, I know what you mean about groups -- people keep making me officers of stuff which is fun... I meant are you not getting any group noticies at all (like such and such friend joined a new group), or just not getting notices when people reply to your discussion threads in forums?

I might be getting more notifications because I fiddled with my notifications in my account settings. I also set my news feed preferences options to show me more stories about groups. There's one other thing I changed that made a difference that I can't recall off the top of my head.

Thanks for the comment on the design. :) I still want a custom header, to make the site load a little faster and maybe put both columns on the right. But yes, this looks like the final cut at least for the next year or so.

Re: Bourland Has Me Asking - How Do You Measure the Value of a Facebook Friend?

Andy Beard — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 07:19:20 -0000

Groups have forums

Forums have discussion threads

Who knows maybe I just haven't had any replies in the threads I replied in to receive a notification of some kind - I didn't take part in too many because I was worried about not being able to follow them.

However I did comment on a video in a private group we are both a member of earlier, and I didn't get any notification of the reply that was posted.

p.s. I like the new look, is this the final one?

Re: Bourland Has Me Asking - How Do You Measure the Value of a Facebook Friend?

Tinu Abayomi-Paul — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:06:46 -0000

Really? My conversations pop up in my news feeds. What discussions are harder to follow, maybe I haven't had them yet.

Re: Bourland Has Me Asking - How Do You Measure the Value of a Facebook Friend?

Andy Beard — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 06:03:54 -0000

I haven't quite got into reciprocating pokes yet.

My biggest problem with Facebook is the amount of clicks it takes to monitor any conversations you participate in. It is almost as if it is designed for flyby commenting.