Before another Friday rolls around and our Twitter accounts overflow with lots of Follow Fiday posts I thought I would share the comments that had been made on that post.
10 comments:
- Judy Webster said...
- Good to know that I have some support! I agree with your comment about 'Follow Friday posts that resemble shopping lists and are produced by some automated service.' I'm pleased that Shauna singled you out with her 'one #FF recommendation'. You deserve it.
- March 7, 2011 10:02 AM
- Geniaus said...
- Judy, Good to know I am not Robinson Crusoe!
- March 7, 2011 10:23 AM
- Joan Miller (Luxegen) said...
- Thank goodness you wrote about this! I've been thinking the same thing, especially when it came to bot type programs to help people do the #FF! The way it was going with me was I'd see mentions of myself in #FF, then I'd feel guilty I hadn't reciprocated and would fire off a few. Then I'd think this is ridiculous - why am I doing this? I should have clued in there were others feeling the same way. What I have started doing instead is promoting folks that are giving talks or have books or great blog post contributions for the better of genealogy. I think that is more valuable than #FF. And I can do that ANY day of the week :) Thanks again for bringing it up!
- March 7, 2011 12:40 PM
- Alex said...
- Viva la revolution! I've always been baffled by mass #FF myself. Like everyone I only have a limited amount of time, so I only follow people who add something worthwhile to my day - if you want to know who those people are, anyone can click on my Following list and see for themselves! Alex aka @wychwoodnz and @oneplacestudies
- March 7, 2011 4:16 PM
- Aillin said...
- feeling a little sheepish...that would be my Twitter account Judy replied to in that screenshot you showed...I had been sort of using the #FollowFriday to show whose tweets I found most interesting that week, whose tweets I retweeted etc. The ffhelper program wasn't exactly automated, it gave lists showing who you had retweeted or mentioned recently in your tweets and you could chose whom to include in a FF post. That said though, I will certainly be using the 'less is more' option from now on. Useful lesson learned. Thanks :)
- March 7, 2011 5:41 PM
- Tanya Honey said...
- I was also very happy to see your's and Judy's comments about #FF. Whilst it gives you a warm fuzzy feeling when you see your own twitter name (rarely for me I might add!), it did clog up Friday's tweeting. Posting one #FF will be a lot more interesting.
- March 7, 2011 10:19 PM
- Shauna said...
- I was also feeling a bit overwhelmed by #FF but then found it very hard to try and choose just one of the many great people that I follow. As someone said to me, it will take me years to get round everyone! That said, I still think it is a better way to go than the mass tweets we were seeing.
- March 8, 2011 10:14 AM
- Judy Webster said...
- To give credit where it is due... It was Carole Riley who started the ball rolling with this.
- March 8, 2011 11:42 AM
- Carole Riley said...
- I'm just now catching up on blogs and had no idea of what I'd started! I'd been feeling guilty about not returning the #FFs for ages, but then when I followed someone's link to an automated thing that found all my re-tweeters I used it and thought 'what am I doing????'. Never again! So when I saw that post I thought it was worth putting it out there.
- March 9, 2011 10:12 PM
- Shelley said...
- As above. What they said. :-)
- March 9, 2011 10:25 PM
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