Some time ago a friend changed his LinkedIn connection type on me: I went from a "colleague" to a "friend". I felt good, as this was sort of a promotion. I had thought about making some similar changes to my LinkedIn contacts myself, but felt that it was sort of odd to change my position about how I envison my contacts to be "related" to me. I concluded that I'd better leave good enough alone. Then, recently one of my MBA students complained that he simply had too many contact showing up in his instant messenger software. He would have to "decommission" some of his friends. So, we have introduced a new social phenomenon driven by our social networking technology: the unfriending of our friends.
Clearly, this unfriending business has reached new heights, as this week the New Oxford American Dictionary released its Word of The Year. This year's winner: unfriend.
Now you know it -- get ready to be unfriended.
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Facebook is always updating its pages, and recently noticed that there are many people under my friend list that I hardly contact, so on top right a message come up reminding the me to contact that person, in order to keep in touch. I guess that's a nice strategy facebook came out with to stop people from de-friending each other.
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