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A few days ago I decided to start a little experiment with social networks. I was planning to add 100 friends to my Facebook account. In the end it turned out that I was half successful. I managed to send a friend request to 50 people then Facebook started telling me that I am doing something very bad and they will suspend my account if I continue to do so. So I stopped, 50 is still better than nothing, right?
I was choosing people pseudo randomly from various facebook groups and fan pages. After I added only one quarter of planned people, 25, the responses started to pour in. I don’t have any idea if accounts I added were active or not and when they were last time used. I was merely guessing.
Results are somewhat surprising.
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Every now and then some random person starts following me on Twitter and every now and then some random person adds me to their friends list on Facebook.
“Watson, a clue!”
I’ll start with an experiment. I will be adding one hundred people on my friends list on Facebook and I’ll follow ome hundred different people on Twitter. What’s the situation right now? Being a moderate user of both services this is what I have:
Facebook: 165 Friends, Twitter: 45 Following, 84 Followers
People I pick will be pseudo-random. I will check if they are active and they don’t appear as a spam bot on Twitter. On Facebook I’ll start with friends of my friends and people from various groups and invitations to all sorts of events. I will try to keep people as different as possible adding males and females of all ages and interest groups. I’ll be posting follow-ups on twitter #twmkd so you can keep track of the progress.
It starts now!
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Friday, May 15th. It was the Bar Camp Ljubljana day. Bar-what? BarCamp. An ad-hoc user generated conference. You know the place and you know the time. The rest is up to visitors. Upon registration you get to make your own name tag, you stick it onto yourself and then you go and find a session slot. At BarCampLjubljana sessions were 20 minute talks with 10 more minutes for Q&A.
Here’s how I got my BarCamp cherry-popped with second BarCamp in Slovenia. Yes, it was a first time for me. *blushes*
Recently a friend of mine visited a doctor. In the waiting room he found waiting patients willing to share thoughts to pass the time. By coincidence the talk stumbled upon the latest flu outbreak. Exact course of discussion alludes me. But since he pointed out the problem I was willing to write a thought or two about it and share it with you.
The outbreak of presumed swine influenza virus in Mexico had a lasting effect on the media and on the inhabitants of this beautiful planet. Media somehow sniffed out the news. Started to report about it. People who were not directly affected by it did not react – at first. But the day after – news was still there. Even in bolder and wider font, so that even the visually impaired people knew about it. And what happened the day after?
