I don’t hide the fact that I’m not big on this whole friending thing that is a necessary part of being a member of the various social media and social networks that are abounding all over the place like bad weeds. Even so I accept the fact that it really the only way for the underlying principals of sharing in the social networks to work but there comes a point when you just gotta say

Enough with the frikken noise already.

The whole Gotta Friend Everyone Everywhere Syndrome (GFEES) has been made more than apparent with FriendFeed and its incredible growth the last little while. Don’t get me wrong I am not slamming FriendFeed here - in fact it is because of them that this evil syndrome has been brought to light and shows why it needs to be crushed ASAP.

My inbox this morning was a perfect showcase for GFEES and the madness that is providing more bacn for my morning breakfast than it is viable conversation starters. In my inbox I found that the majority of mail waiting for me to sift through was FriendFeed and Twitter notifications that I had been friended and that they were waiting with baited breath for the return action.

Now this wouldn’t be so bad except that most of the people friending me on FriendFeed were also friending me on Twitter.

Stop It!

Don’t you get the basic principal here folks? If you friend me on FriendFeed you don’t have to do the same on Twitter because if I friend you on FriendFeed I am going to see your Twitter stream so I don’t need to do the same on Twitter; and chances are starting today I’m not going to because there is just too much damn noise out there.

So please for the sanity of your new found friends out there take it easy on the friending stuff - please.

Conversation Tags: social networks, social media, social aggregators, friending