This blog post from Peter Kim makes an interesting point about how easy it is to let your social networks — especially online social networks — grow to the point where they are unwieldy instead of useful. Online social networks are extremely valuable for building, strengthening, and maintaining important connections, but allowing them to swell beyond the point of manageability transforms something valuable into a nuisance. To be useful, according to Peter, networks need to have a high “signal-to-noise ration,” and recommends pruning them back when they become cumbersome.
The full story at Being Peter Kim:
http://www.beingpeterkim.com/2008/07/social-networki.html
