I currently have 430 friends at Facebook. I am a friendly guy, I guess. Honestly, all I use Facebook for is to click the add button when I get a friend request.
But I have been recently getting these friend requests from old friends, outside of the search industry. Like people I grew up with and went to school with. Also, some family members have been friending me, so they are on the list.
What I totally forgot about is that my Twitters have been automatically posting to my Facebook status section. So whenever I post to twitter, it is updated on Facebook.
Not only that, I automatically post my personal blog posts to my Twitter account. Which then will automatically post that twitter (my blog post title and URL) to Facebook. It seems I am a very very active Facebook user, when in all honesty, I only login to Facebook to accept friend requests and decline everything else.
What is pretty funny is that when I first added the Twitter to Facebook application, I wrote about it. I named the blog post Another Way to Annoy People Using Twitter. So, I knew it would annoy people on some level.
This weekend, I spoke to a few of these normal Facebook users (non-SEOs) and they mentioned (two of them did) that I am very active on Facebook, but in a weird way. I.e. I post these short things, often with URLs at the end, and sometimes I tell people I am going to the bathroom. I then remembered that my Twitter account is hooked up and it might be annoying real Facebook users who don't understand that.
So I asked both of those people I was talking to. One on Friday night the other one last night at a nice BBQ if I was being an "annoying Facebook user." They both said no, but I think they were being nice.
People are much more frank via comments. So go ahead, be deadly truthful. Am I an evil facebook user? Feel free to be anonymous with your comments.


Comments
"Going to the Bathroom!"
Well Barry when SEO and regular Life meets you may be seen as Anti-Social.
So I guess the ball is in your court how you want to merge yourself in different Social Media networks.
SEO in a vacuum is not viable.
Welcome to Web 2.0
Posted by: Igor The Troll | May 26, 2008 2:51 PM
Thanks Troll...
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | May 26, 2008 3:00 PM
Barry people usually call me Igor, but I guess I deserve the "Troll" from you! lol
Posted by: Igor The Troll | May 26, 2008 3:17 PM
Oh, most people simply sign off with their name on their comments. Sorry for my mistake then.
Posted by: Barry Schwartz | May 26, 2008 3:22 PM
You are far from the only person who uses Twitter/Facebook in such a way. It's not annoying since most of us aren't Facebook addicts anymore. We log on when we have to answer messages or to initiate contact with friends. If people were staring at Facebook all the time, then sure, they may get annoyed, but Facebook also selectively displays what they want to in the user's mini feed (I believe). Status updates are another story, but again, I'm not living on Facebook to notice. :)
Posted by: Tamar Weinberg | May 26, 2008 7:33 PM