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Is Social Media Friending Overrated?

Raise your hand if you use Twitter as a SEO marketing tool! Following tweets on Twitter has become an obsession for some and obstacle for others. Should you "follow back" a person who chooses to follow you first? That depends, suggest Simon Owens. In this post he discusses the new social dilemma -- to friend or not to friend.

"This is a decision that millions of social media users make sometimes several times a day; in a world where a Facebook friend request costs nothing more than a single click, the 'friend economy' faces an overabundance of friend inflation," he writes. "Given that reciprocal friending -- that is, friending someone simply because he or she friended you -- is often the norm, users sometimes find that their friend feeds and follower lists become so cluttered that they're virtually unusable."

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