Today (November 17th) is National UnFriend Day. How do you plan on celebrating?
Do you plan on participating?
Who do think are your true friends?
http://www.thirdage.com/news/jimmy-kimmel-calls-national-unfriend-day_11-17-2010
http://abc.go.com/shows/jimmy-kimmel-live
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I will celebrate "National Unfriend Day" by not changing anything about my typical behavior. I will remain friendly when appropriate and try to avoid all circumstances where an unfriendly attitude is suggested or required. I took a quick look through my <70 Facebook friends and I am at the very least chatty with all of them so I feel my non-participation in National Unfriend Day is the most appropriate way for me to celebrate this day. Big smiles :)
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People who study interpersonal relationships recognize the importance of these "weak ties"...
-- Quote
Interestingly, strong and weak ties tend to serve different functions in our lives.
When we need a big favor or social or instrumental support, we ask our friends. We call them when we need to move a washing machine
But if we need information that we don't have, the people to ask are our weak ties. They have more diverse knowledge and more diverse ties than our close friends do. We ask them when we want to know who to hire to install our washing machine.
A well balanced social network has both types of ties.
-- /Quote
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/thinking-about-kids/201005/facebook-and-the-strength-weak-ties
http://scholarlykitchen.sspnet.org/2009/08/12/the-strength-of-weak-ties-why-twitter-matters-in-scholarly-communication/
http://smg.media.mit.edu/classes/library/granovetter.weak.ties/granovetter.html
So... what about National UnFriend Day? Well, as you can see from the above, Jimmy Kimmel isn't telling me anything I didn't already know, and wasn't already taking into account in my "friending" decisions.
Maybe better words can be found instead of "friend", and I certainly hope the tech improves so it becomes easier to manage the fact that we have different degrees of closeness to people, and are interested in different aspects of their lives.
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Come on... no way this guy has 70 real friends.