If you want interaction you have to let in noise?
by Roger
Robert Scoble posted earlier on Twitter and Facebook about ‘The biggest difference between Twitter and Facebook‘.
In this post are many valid points, and one point about Facebook he says:
SO GLAD I deleted most of the people I had friended on Facebook and went down to a core group of people
I friended Robert some months ago and he never responded to the friend request it’s still sitting there somewhere pending, to be honest I never even realized as he uses FB so infrequently, I don’t care that he unfollowed me on Twitter I kept following him (Through the new Lists system I presume, he is back following me again) , Robert for me is someone I can gleen tech information from, we’re not buddies we’ve never met and I doubt our networking together would provide any rich benefits for either party.
But I digress!
Back to Facebook, you see if you don’t action anything on someones friend request to you then the person issuing the friend request will see everything you post BUT, can’t like it, can’t share it and damn sure can’t comment.
I don’t like this and Facebook should change it! But to What?
Having to go to Twitter to reply to Robert that’s just not cricket! Surely Facebook want to keep me ON Facebook?
But then is this Roberts choice by not friending everyone (which he shouldn’t have to) then it puts him on a pretty private island just broadcasting to the masses but only his clique (I mean that in a nice way) are able to interact with his updates.Solutions? Or is this just another Facebook is for people I know Twitter is for people I want to know?
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Comments
The solution will come when Facebook builds out its public side of life (which right now are Facebook Pages). Twitter is a far better way to watch a huge number of people and brands, though, especially after you get the new lists feature.
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Robert can be reached through ff and he does respond even though he has to go through a lot many questions etc, i don’t think we should expect him to be that responsive on twitter etc where so many mention his account name.
i would like to say that Scoble and Gray response time is better than most of the companies who employ so may support guy just for the purpose