NEWS: With Friends Like These, Who Needs Friends?

Me too!

Thanks for telling me. You're such a good friend.

it's myspace, facebook and blogs. get over it. this 'top friends' crisis can be solved pretty easily, and doesn't need a room full of brains to do it.

So solve it. Click your magic penis fingers, and personally redesign every SNS site so as to allow easy grouping and ranking of friends without causing a scene.

And stop using apostrophes around random words for no grammatical reason, douche.

What *I* don't get is why this problem needs innovation to solve it. Livejournal has had friends groups for years.

The few people I consider my really close friends aren't on either MySpace or Facebook--that I'm aware of anyway--and if they are I can guarantee you they're not sitting there bitching and moaning because they're not on my friends list. But then again, I'm getting old, and all this shit came around past our "high-school drama" phase.

I could really care less, but I think it's good people are being innovative when it comes to these types of issues. There have been a couple times on SG and MySpace when I wish I had a more precise choice in who got to read my blog.

Well lookie who's not going to make it to swingkungfu's top 8.

or don't add people you don't want to read your sensitive, personal bullshit? or have two accounts, public and private, until that ultimate solution is finally figured out.

but oh noes, that might not be convenient!

myspace has the option to set preferred lists for blogs, and has for a loooooooooooooong time.

at some point we actually had to socialize with people...

http://www.allfacebook.com/2007/09/facebooks-killer-feature-coming-soon/

i was just reading a discussion similar to this about twitter about the creation of group lists. Arguments against were that as a "micro-blog" it should be available to any readership just like a classic blog would be available and that it is actually beneficial not to draw distinctions between your friends and acquaintances because it encourages a more comfortable interaction that could lead to a better general understanding of people

The pro argument generally seemed based on the idea of twitter as a way of sending messages to friends and were generally focused either on the benefits of being able to designate people by region so you could coordinate actual physical interaction without cluttering up everyone else's feed.or the possibility of just one or two people that you didn't want to receive certain posts from you. Like maybe I'd have a group full of my family members that i put on a list I'd ban from any posts about me shooting heroin or something.

Its all interesting stuff to think about.