Very true…

My only worry I suppose is having a large number of “unknown” or “un-vetted” followers can also bring the noise level up so high it’s hard to allow the quality stuff to emerge. Heck even with vetted followers the noise can be pretty darn loud sometimes.

I suppose one thing I need to look at or reevaluate within the concept of a life streams is “what is noise”, maybe nothing is, it’s a new way of approaching connectedness.

Cheers,

Christopher

I don’t think having more followers necessarily improves the quality of the conversation, but it clearly helps high quality stuff spread faster to a wider audience, which, in turn, should create opportunities for quality conversations to emerge.

I wonder if having more followers on any of these services is actually all that useful other than a way to stroke ones own ego.

Does having more followers add to the quality of the conversation?

I suppose it could if you know all those people or they are making comments that are more insightful than “oh yeah me too”. But from what I have seen more is not better it’s just more (noise) which in fact detracts from the usefulness of these services and the conversations we are trying to have. Sure we can block people but now we’re into a management loop that can become cumbersome.

I think twitter is a great tool and Identi.ca may become own with good developer innovation but more users for the sake of more users seems like an odd goal.

Of course I am no social communication expert so I may be out to lunch.

Love the blog,

Christopher

P.S. I have 7 followers and no none of them.