The Fine Art of Facebook Friending
By Andrew Wallenstein
As an increasingly addicted Facebook member, it's been fascinating to follow the growing debate from New York Times to UK's Guardian on the nuances of maintaining Facebook friend lists. I seem to engage in a moral debate assessing every individual who "friends" me--are we really friends, am I being too literal, etc.--so to read Mark Cuban's savvy dissection of the subject was enlightening. He identifies three different levels of Facebook friends, and the third is most interesting: a "power" tier of people he isn't actually friends with, but realizes it's mutually beneficial to just have them in stock. Guess even billionaires need friends in high places.
ALSO: So your clients aren't working because of the strike and the holiday vacation to Bali doesn't start until the weekend. How do agents fill their time? Apparently there is this website called Facebook where they can waste their days "friending" everyone in sight, reports NY Observer. Let's hope they find Twitter by 2009.
