Comments on: Ban Follow Friday (#followfriday)

By: Social Networking – Your Way or Mine? at James Gallagher

Social Networking – Your Way or Mine? at James Gallagher — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 20:57:59 +0000

[...] seems stuck in my craw and so I have to get it off my chest. Last Friday SimplyZesty published a post exhorting us (Twitter folk, that is) to stop the #FollowFriday convention: I mean am I really going [...]

By: James Corbett

James Corbett — Sat, 22 Aug 2009 09:49:28 +0000

Which is it Niall? You draw up a list of 50 inluencers to follow but then you want to ban the idea of Follow Friday where because of “people trying to influence me”. So you’ve got a special license to be an influencer?

By: Donagh Mc Sweeney

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 15:09:02 +0000

Like us all, I’ve seen pages with dozens upon dozens of #followfridays. It’s way too much! In fact it’s not far from @ spamming.

I’ve only used the feature about 4, 5 times at most. On those ocassions one was for a colleague and the others for people I engage with regurally.

Like everything in life, it’s got to be used in moderation. Too much drink makes you drunk , too much food makes you bloated while too many #followfridays dilutes your influnece with others.

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:39:27 +0000

Don’t like it – ignore it. Simple as. That’s what I and many others have found to learn. You can’t please everybody, especially online.

Follow Friday is good in small doses. I picked up on this in a previous post of mine, that if you just tweet after tweet after tweet of the hashtag then you are completely taking away the meaning of it.

One tweetful of names, and finished.

By: FiscalStudent

FiscalStudent — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:36:30 +0000

I agree with Donagh, I think #followfriday is a good idea that has been misused.

I tweeted the following last night which I think sums up how #followfriday should be used.

“On that note only my 3rd ever suggestion for #followfriday @irishhotelchat for his excellent blog post “Week in Ireland” http://bit.ly/rG77i”

Key Points
____________

1. You don’t have to recommend someone every Friday
2. Give context i.e “Week in Ireland”
3. Give sample, people can read the linked to blog post before deciding whether to follow or not

By: Niall Harbison

Niall Harbison — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:27:53 +0000

Like Donagh says above if there is one person in there with an @name and a couple of reasons it is probably a better use of it. I just don’t know what I am supposed to do with 10 name sin a list. Don’t think time is an issue as I would never look through them. Although that is the beauty of twitter in that if you see something you don’t like you can always unfollow

By: Gav Reilly

Gav Reilly — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:23:01 +0000

If you find ten-name #ff tweets annoying, ignore them. That simple. People who might have a little more time on their hands might still find it handy, surely?

By: Stewart Curry

Stewart Curry — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:20:47 +0000

With you 100%. It’s just pointless noise at best – especially the big listing ones

By: Ivan

Ivan — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:18:48 +0000

By: Donagh Mc Sweeney

Donagh Mc Sweeney — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:08:12 +0000

I don’t think #followfriday #ff is a bad thing, just something that’s overused. If people used it sparingly it’s likely to have a better impact than the current format as shown in the image above. When I say sparingly I meant a maximum of one @ recommendation. And maybe offer some reasons why you like what that person has to say. I don’t think many people(if any) read through large #ff @ tweets like the one above really. They are like banner ads, nobody pays attention to them anymore!

By: Kyle Tunney

Kyle Tunney — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 14:05:55 +0000

Very good point, even at the start of twitter it was quite annoying!

(what if we changed it to #stalksunday, has a nicer ring to it… )