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You might be oversimplifying, because the same thing could have been said about MySpace. You said it may be a problem with the friends you chose, which is corr

You might be oversimplifying, because the same thing could have been said about MySpace. You said it may be a problem with the friends you chose, which is correct, but when a social net grows too large, real life social pressures start inducing you to include people who aren't interesting, and that has an overall negative effect on the network. So the choice end up being between manually filtering spam and snubbing people who you have to interact with on a daily basis.

k-mcgrady 15y ago
That's a good point. I've kept my friend list down by actively not accepting all friend requests and it still astonishes me the reaction some people have when I 'reject' them. Particularly people I've only met once or twice. It also depends on the type of people you friend. For example very active internet users (especially geeks) are more likely to post links to tech stories, use the subscriber system etc. Most people I know keep everything private, don't share links (apart from the odd YouTube video), and only share interesting things about their lives.