A quick funny thanks to The Oatmeal reminded me of one of the challenges of interacting on social networks; namely getting through to people who are weary of being spammed, annoyed and stalked by their own connections. What is surprising is the lack of  ’unfriending’ that happens on Facebook as a result. Even when I get annoying content, it takes quite a lot of time before the offending person invades my social space so much that I have to give them the heave-ho. I tend to leave groups if they overdo the email reminder function, and I always turn down fan pages that bear no relevance to my life. Apart from that I’m relatively placid. I find that having too much of a stringent policy means you sometimes miss the ‘good crap’ –  namely the event invite that was actually really good, the link to the blog that inspired an idea I had at work, the party in another country that you find out a friend of yours is actually going to and maybe you could go there as a birthday treat.  It’s what I call the TK Maxx Theory – namely that you wade through loads of dull stuff and in there you’ll always find a few jewels.  But not every user is as open to random information as me. It would be interesting to get your views on how avoiding the ‘Facebook annoyance’ tag affects your business activities on that medium?

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