The whole "friend" situation is odd how it plays out. For some reason, a lot of people on twitter are following others not because they're interested in them, but because someone else they follow is also following the other person. Or they just want to inflate their follow numbers.
For instance, every now and then someone will mention me in a "follow friday", and then I'll get a bunch of random people I don't know following me, and usually, most of the new followers never actually start conversations with me. Out of the almost 300 people I'm following and being followed by, I don't even know who half of them are, and of the half I do know who they are, maybe 10% of them are people who I consider actual "friends" in the real sense of the word.
I kinda wish Twitter will adopt the circles concept that G+ has. It's a pain to work with lists in Twitter.
I do miss LJ sometimes, but due to the nature of my job, it's hard to find time to type out meaningful posts, and I tend to also fall behind in readong the posts of others. Also, would be nice if LJ would make a decent full-featured android app. The current app is very limited, and buggy, and since my internet acces is almost exclusively through a mobile phone, LJ is a pain to work with in a mobile browser.
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Date: 2011-07-21 08:09 pm (UTC)For instance, every now and then someone will mention me in a "follow friday", and then I'll get a bunch of random people I don't know following me, and usually, most of the new followers never actually start conversations with me. Out of the almost 300 people I'm following and being followed by, I don't even know who half of them are, and of the half I do know who they are, maybe 10% of them are people who I consider actual "friends" in the real sense of the word.
I kinda wish Twitter will adopt the circles concept that G+ has. It's a pain to work with lists in Twitter.
I do miss LJ sometimes, but due to the nature of my job, it's hard to find time to type out meaningful posts, and I tend to also fall behind in readong the posts of others. Also, would be nice if LJ would make a decent full-featured android app. The current app is very limited, and buggy, and since my internet acces is almost exclusively through a mobile phone, LJ is a pain to work with in a mobile browser.