Zorac (zorac) wrote,
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Friends page overload

Gah. Things are getting to the point where my friends page regularly picks up dozens of posts in just a few hours and keeping up with them all is just draining far too much of my time. Something has to change, as it means that other things are not getting done. Two options present themselves: firstly, I could just defriend a whole bunch of people who I don't really know, secondly, I could just read my friends page filtered. To help me decide, here's a gratuitous poll which I may or may not take any notice of. Enjoy.

Poll #176376 To de, or not to de - that is the question.
Open to: Friends, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 33

What should I do about friends-page overload?

View Answers
Trim down your friends list - it's the honest thing to do.
11(33.3%)
Use filters, then folk can still read your protected posts.
16(48.5%)
What-ev-er...
1(3.0%)
Ha! I defriended you first!
0(0.0%)
I don't care what you do to them, just don't defriend me!
5(15.2%)
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chinawolf

September 5 2003, 06:59:43 UTC 17 years ago

*cough* I defriended quite a few people recently. There are a few people I can't unfriend while staying (fandom-)pc, but once I catch myself skimming every single entry of a person (usually more than five a day), I think it's ok to defriend them. But I always give them the option of an immediate re-friending if they tell me they want to keep reading my protected posts. I post most of my posts to specific friends groups, so I won't have random 'friends' reading my personal stuff anyway. I also have one friends group comprised of all people whose posts I do not want to miss even if I have zero time (about twenty or so), or which I read while I'm on holiday.

I also sometimes defriend people who I like to read posts from, but whom I'm not really close to - if I really need to skim my list to cram in new people, or in the recent case, a new fandom. I've found that I can't cope with more than a maximum of about a hundred people on my list. (So, uhm, sorry about unfriending you recently!)

zorac

September 5 2003, 14:52:41 UTC 17 years ago

I'm going with the filter those who want it, defriend those who don't approach. Seems the easiest way. And, yes, most of my "friends only" posts are in fact filtered to some smaller group anyway.

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