For most of us, Facebook and Twitter are an unmanageable mess of status updates, random questionnaires, and all round pointless posts, but what if you actually wanted to use social networking without getting information overload, here are a few tips.
Jimmy Kimmel suggested a National Unfriend Day that was to take place on November 17th, but just because that's come and gone, doesn’t mean your social media doesn’t need some winter cleaning.
Less is a hell of a lot more when it comes to social networking, particularly when you’re trying to find the right mixture of personal and open communication between friends, family, followers and just plain old strangers. By cutting down the number of people you’re following through Facebook and Twitter along with many other sites you can help distil the information you’re getting, making everything easier to read.
To make it easier on you, Facebook has simplified the process of quickly removing friends. Under for the Friends tab, clicking "Edit" will show you a small list of recently updated friends. Using the drop down you can filter out friends by "All Friends", "Recent", etc. Having a broad look across your social graph, you can quickly setup filters to defriend people you've lost contact with.
Here are a few simple mental filters to help you figure out who you should be unfriending.
- Do you wish this person a Happy Birthday?
- Have you seen this person in the last year?
- Does this person update constantly?
- Does this person post an original thought or is everything recycled form somewhere or something else, e.g. links, quotes, lyrics?
Facebook may limit its third party apps for getting stats on the people you follow but Twitter is open to everyone from ManageFlitter, Nest Unclutterer to SocialToo.
Just a few methods for filtering out a lot of the unwarranted, unwanted information from your social networking sites. But if you want something to help you organise them all, check out Digsby as mentioned in a previous post.
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