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Almost so wrong, but perhaps it's right for some?

Archive - Originally posted on "The Horse's Mouth" - 2015-05-11 07:14:19 - Graham Ellis

Posted by a Facebook Friend:

I'm all in favour and admiration of keeping daily contact groups clean - of not reducing correspondence to a spam level that goes out on a frequent basis to a huge number of half-interested people. But I don't like this:
  1. It encourages untruths
  2. It looks rather like a pyramid scheme
  3. It's a threat - do as I say in your space or I'll drop you
  4. It insults her friends
  5. And it's woolly in the instrcutions - "I have been considering"
There are those who 'rate' themselves on their popularity - number of Facebook friends, number of shares and comments on things like this. And that's their choice. "Share if you agree" is fine ... "comment on how you met me" is fine. Threats aren't, and I'm just ignoring this post and may find my friend list one shorter.

Now - here comes a contrast. I maintain my LinkedIn contacts list and appreciate the way of keeping in touch with people with whom I have important but occasional contacts - delegates on courses who may wish to connect, hotel guests who want to remember us, and rail industry and local government folks that I work with on the TransWilts. My profile's at https://www.linkedin.com/in/wellho and I'll be delighed to accept connections from delegates, hotel guests, rail contacts, friends, potential partners, correspondents, etc ... while taking care not to fill my files with people who I've never heard from and want to connect because they feel that the world (and that includes me) requires their product or services, and who approach people in bulk with link requests.