AFAIK, Digg does not even let you cancel a Digg account that you no longer want. It helps keep their membership count inflated enough to impress (or scam) potential corporate purchasers. You can guess that I’m no fan of Digg.

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I also had to cancel a weekly post that just soaks up my time b/c it compiles quotes from blogs. I don’t have the time for that anymore.

A word to the wise: Write less frequently! It makes it easier to want to keep subscribed to your blog!

I’ve also been thinking of canceling my Digg account b/c I don’t really use Digg.

No one has got mad, because I think those relationships are dead and it’s not how many “friends” you have, but what your friends do.

What sparked this was the number of digg “friends” I had who never did anything, not even log on. And with the new style of digg it makes sense to have less friends so as you can communicate more effectively.

The point is, no one wants to be used and if you try to take without giving you will be viewed as such.

I agree with you here, Lyndon with one difference. I keep my real friends who occasionally use the services friended, because for the most part, it takes them a little while to truly see the benefit, and are only joining because I insisted. Then invariably, at one time or another, they get a huge bump in traffic and become a convert.

Other than that, hey, business is business. As a sporadic user myself, I really wish people didn’t follow me to certain services, like Digg, as I’m mostly there for personal use.

Then some repeatedly comment in our blog with gratuitous link dropping. It’s gross. The user “name” in the comments thread is “Gee read my cool post XYZ.” The “website” they list is the post they’re promoting. It took a while to learn not to accept every friend request.

Lyndon…nice to see you posting. We wish you a happy new year.

I thought that was kind of the point of social media. If I scrub my hull I might only have one friend thus being not very popular. I am like JMorris and love the attention. So on the off chance the bottom feeding barnacles might one day vote on or visit my page I think I am going to let them be.

Using social media sites for traffic and content are great. I go there to find much of the great information I use today. But for the really good information I subscribe to feeds. I feel that the social media barnacles are in the same class as spammers so I just disregard their “shouts.” I look at them as a part of the game just like having e-mail.

Oh bugger

Happy New Year to you sir :)

I am pretty sure it was you that was on about ?personal brand management? a few times and I tend to also look at things from that perspective. That is to say that I tend to try and be particular as to whom I am ?friends? with and generally have no patience for vote begging buggars (like that James Morris guy, yeesh… just kidding there JM :0).

Anyway, nice to see ya posting and doing some house cleaning? Happy New Year?s to ya mate!

I’ve been being more active in seeking out quality relationships with other bloggers. In the process, I’ve been trying to weed out contacts that do nothing more than take up space.

The difficulty I run into is that I’m a “nice guy” at heart and I genuinely like to talk with people. However, I’m finding that a lot of my time is wasted in idle “chit chat” which could be spent on building a better blog and/or social media profile.

Thanks for the good reminder, Lyndon!