I recently had someone call me out about using essentially Twittering too much on Facebook. I have my Twitter account linked, so that it will publish items as status updates on my Facebook account. To tell you the truth, I was almost shocked it took that long for someone to freak out about it. I do pair down the Twitter noise by excluding @ replies, but I hadn’t accounted for retweets though.
The part that surprised me was the people quickly jumping to my defense on the matter. It just shows the people who are passively lurking, and by extension reading and enjoying the content I pass along. Initially I felt bad about having annoyed one of my Facebook friends and looked to shape up my ways. But as one of my friends pointed out, he could choose to hide my updates and that be the end of it.
The part that got me thinking about this little exchange is the ramifications for Facebook users as things begin to change after Facebook’s acquisition of FriendFeed. FriendFeed is all about social media aggregation. How many uninitiated users will suffer from data overload as FriendFeed becomes one with Facebook? I guess only time will tell.
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Roshan
