{"id":447,"date":"2008-01-06T13:22:58","date_gmt":"2008-01-06T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/archives\/447"},"modified":"2008-01-06T13:23:01","modified_gmt":"2008-01-06T17:23:01","slug":"why-one-should-not-connect-with-egoists-on-social-networks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2008\/01\/06\/why-one-should-not-connect-with-egoists-on-social-networks\/","title":{"rendered":"Why One Should Not Connect With Egoists on Social Networks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Second, if you add me as a friend I assume you want me to send you emails and interact with you.&#8221; &#8212; <a href=\"http:\/\/scobleizer.com\/2008\/01\/05\/plaxo-the-social-monster\/\">Plaxo: the social monster? &#8211; Scobleizer<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Robert is the geek equivalent of Paris Hilton or Brittany Spears or Lindsey Lohan: A sad trainwreck we all thank a higher being that its not us. People don&#8217;t care what he has to say or endorse. They just want appear &#8220;cool&#8221; to their other geek friends. Because he does not know us, we don&#8217;t expect him to actually contact us.<\/p>\n<p>The further a number of connections rises above 150 (<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dunbar%27s_number\">Dunbar&#8217;s number<\/a>), the more people listed who are not really a friend. At 5,000, he would require unheard of levels of emotional intelligence (I just don&#8217;t see it) to know them all well. Therefore, its clear the connections from Scoble&#8217;s perspective is to market to them (aka spam).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Second, if you add me as a friend I assume you want me to send you emails and interact with you.&#8221; &#8212; Plaxo: the social monster? &#8211; Scobleizer Robert is the geek equivalent of Paris Hilton or Brittany Spears or Lindsey Lohan: A sad trainwreck we all thank a higher being that its not us. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,57],"tags":[705,73,238,88,315,994,149,283,995,522],"class_list":["post-447","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interweb","category-social","tag-dunbars-number","tag-email","tag-friend","tag-geek","tag-intelligence","tag-social-media","tag-social-networks","tag-user-interface","tag-vehicle","tag-wikipedia"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-7d","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=447"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}