Twitter Follows

I recently decided to try Twitter anew (after my previous Twitter account got hacked), and am looking for possible cool Twitter follows.  Anyone out there have any suggestions?

Facebook Friends

Unlike a lot of people on Facebook, I run a lean friends list.  How lean?  It's only 78 people.  It isn't a grand number.  In terms of Facebook friends, it's actually quite small.  This is mostly due to the fact that I do not actively go out and search for friends, either by searching my past for people I knew, or by combing through the vast list of people that Facebook recommends that I could possibly be friends with.  There are a number of reasons for that.

The biggest reason why I don't search for friends comes from my current friends list.  I have a lot of friends on that list who have befriended a lot of people... A LOT of people.  In all fairness, they are more popular than me, and some of that is work related (both the popularity and the number of friends).  But the end result of that my suggested friends list tends to have a gigantic number of people on it, most of who I do not even know.  Because of the number, and the fact that Facebook doesn't seem to want to allow me to say, "I don't know this person, don't show me them again," it makes wading through the gigantic list a lot more arduous.

Facebook also has made it a bit more difficult to filter friends.  It used to be that you could filter a list not only by school, but graduation year as well.  As near as I can tell now, that option is not available.  So, now I see not only people from my graduating class, but everyone who ever went to that school.  Its all well and good for my high school, which tended to have smaller classes, but I went to Syracuse University for college.  Syracuse tended to not have small classes... ever.  It's difficult enough to search for just my graduating class, now I have to try and filter out every other graduating class too.

The last reason is probably the most personal.  I never really had a lot of friends growing up.  I still don't.  A lot of the people I was friends with I do have as contacts on Facebook.  But there are a lot more people out there that I knew growing up that I wouldnt say I was great friends with.  Fringe classmates, people I know in passing, but not all that well, and a few crushes here and there.  Often when I look at the list of people Facebook suggests I might be friends with, I run across someone I knew in this capacity.  And, for that brief moment, I wonder if they would actually want to be Facebook friends with me, then usually move on.  I usually feel like if I were to Facebook friend them, it would almost be like stalking them, especially with the nature of Facebook's posting system.

Don't get me wrong.  If anyone actually wanted to Facebook friend me, and was someone I knew, I would most likely befriend them (there may be one or two people I wouldn't... everyone have those people in their past).  Unless that happens, my Facebook friends list will stay its lean 78.

Confusion Abounds

The other day, I received a tweet from someone asking about my new girlfriend [name withheld, though it's on my tweet posts, so I don't really know why I'm withholding it]. For those who don't know me:

1) I don't have a new girlfriend
2) I don't have the free time to get a new girlfriend
C) Even if I did have the time, I would not have the self confidence to actually try and get one

Subsequent posts would later reveal that this person messaging me was, according to him, said new girlfriend's husband.

Disregarding the above mentioned don't have a girlfriend, don't have time for a girlfriend, and not a person someone would not want to date anyway points, I have the highest regard for the sanctity of marriage, even if I'm not sure how to spell "sanctity."

The worst part about all of this is that now I have to spend my time on Twitter trying to convince some irate guy that I'm not dating his wife behind his back instead of what Twitter was really meant to do: sending quick parody blurbs under #wookieeleaks (or #wookieleaks, depending on how you spell "wookiee").

Board Membership... Withdrawn

I came to a decision. I've decided that I really need to pull back from all the various message boards, groups, forums, and whatnot that I belong to. In some cases, it's because of conflicting personalities. In other, it's just a feeling of not really fitting in. So, I've begun to shut down all the various accounts that I have all over the internet. In the process, I've seen a few interesting things.

When I deleted my Sci-Fi forum membership, I found out that my profile was still showing up. I'm not sure if it's a maintainence thing or not, but it's still there. Worse still, people can still use it to send me PMs. I still get emails notifying me of these PMs, but I can't view them since my account doesn't exist, though it's still there... sort of.

There are two message boards I can't shut down. One is the Wizard boards, which I'm closing because I don't like Marvel Comics enough to exist on those boards. The other is a spinoff board from Sci-Fi's boards, made by people who kept having problems with their log ins on the Sci-Fi board. It just seems weird to me not to let anyone shut down their accounts, or at least, make it so difficult to find that most people just say forget it and just delete the site.

Cleaning out the myspace groups ran into some fun when I tried to clear out the Coast to Coast AM group. Apparently, it doesn't exist anymore, yet it still shows up on my groups list. I can't resign from it since the group site doesn't exist anymore. It's just... there.

Regardless, I'm pretty much down to five groups now, two on myspace (one of them is by college group, the other a comic book creator group... I'll probably drop that soon, too), and three through Yahoo. The Yahoo ones are all email based, and one is work related. Regardless, all of those are pretty easy to ignore (check all, delete, done).