"Brandon, that's interesting. So, how do you define level of interaction for a follow back? Should they have sent you a few @replies, RT'ed a few links from your Twitter stream?"
- Josh Chandler
"Peter, agreed. Our perception of how to filter who we follow and who we don't becomes blurred the moment we follow more then a few hundred.
As a social media user, as you say, it's all about defining why you use it. For instance, I use it as a communication and information network, so I follow a ton of people, but divide them into filtered down Twitter lists.
On the other hand, others will simply follow for news and celebrity gossip and therefore won't be looking to build a community on Twitter.
I agree on your final point about passing on value to your followers, because you really will benefit most from social media when you create a network of loyal, engaged followers."
- Josh Chandler
"Mic, I think that's the view of a realist (which I share!).
It's all about seeing how the initial users of Google+ who are mostly from Silicon Valley find the uses for it.
There have been plenty of comparisons between Google+ and other social networks, but it's all too soon to know. Once the user base grows and the more mainstream users adopts the service, then we will have a better idea on how successful Google+ will be."
- Josh Chandler
"Roy, that is so true, although I think that Ze Frank had a point in Chris's video interview on this post, there is going to be a LOT more noise.
I get bugged so often with little popup windows telling me about a new message, so, if I have even more noise coming from notifications to do video calls, I am going to find FB incredibly frustrating to use."
- Josh Chandler
"Chris, I am having the same trouble with Facebook video.
To be honest, the Facebook video upload tool has never been of great use to me. I find myself uploading to Youtube and then posting to FB because the link still becomes an active video player, so I really didn't need to use Facebook video."
- Josh Chandler