WorkCandy itself doesn’t have a Twitter account but I do personally. I follow someone who I realized later didn’t want to follow me but they didn’t know how to tell me. Luckily we are friends and I told them that it was fine if they didn’t follow me. They are one of the few who don’t try to follow every single person and only follow those who help them in a specific field of knowledge but since I helped talk them into Twittering they felt obliged to follow me.
Twitter Guilt, Facebook Guilt or Social Guilt, it is about who you let in to your circle. There is one person Facebook kept suggesting to me who was part of my main group of friends. Luckily he never asked me to be his friend on there because I barely tolerate him when he shows up for events.
So how do you ignore someone without causing a ruckus? One thing that Facebook does better than MySpace is that stupid idea to let everyone know when you log in. Facebook keeps your information private until you confirm someone as a friend.
Twitter is harder since they can see your tweets. Tim Ferriss has a twitter account where he currently has 16,000 + followers but only follows 64 which is one of the lowest ratios I have seen. But he has held it down to a reasonable number instead of following everyone which keeps Twitter useful. These guys who follow 16,000 people are not reading those tweets thereby making it even more one-sided than someone who follows just a handful of people.
Guilt is something we create in our own minds so their isn’t much advice here because this is a relatively new phenomenon. How many people would walk up to you and ask you to be a friend? We have all learned tactics to avoid people that we don’t care for even after we acted civil when we needed to.
The new social media world has allowed us to connect with people that we have lost and forgotten whether on purpose or not. We will either come up with tactics to hide our real feelings or start being honest. I sensed that it didn’t really fit for my friend to follow me but I wasn’t sure if the friend would tell me.
Do you have Social Media Guilt? What do you do to keep your friendlist pure?
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