A few weeks ago I was FaceSlammed by Brett Johnson, from the UC team at Microsoft UK. The term FaceSlammed is used to describe the process of someone ignoring a”Friend” request. For example, you sign into Facebook and send a friend request. When you receive the friend request, you either accept or ignore. If you choose to ignore, the person that sent the friend request is not informed, but actions speak louder than words and you notice that they have not added you as a friend. So you do not get access to their walled garden profile within Facebook.
Scoble has gone into lots of details about the art of FaceSlamming and the difference between “friends” and “Online Friends”.
I have to admit, I was surprised to get FaceSlammed by Brett for a couple of reasons:
1) I interviewed brett for the first podcast I did at the EVO community day at Microsoft earlier in the year, where he spoke about Round Table.
2) I started the Live Meeting User Group a few months ago which falls within the UC bucket.
3) I’m simply trying to spread the love about Microsoft products.
4) I expected someone from Microsoft to understand these fundamental concepts about spreading the love and linking in.
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Well, maybe his definition of friend is different than yours. Or maybe he’s behind on his email and doesn’t spend his days on facebook.
Maybe he keeps his facebook account as Non-Professional network, and reserves it for childhood friends, drikking buddies, and family.
I once heard that your privacy is whatever you allow it to be. Maybe he’s more restrictive because he invests more time/effort in each friendship and doesn’t have the bandwidth to deal with more than a few friends.
So don’t take it personally.
Maybe a personal email would sort it all out.
Chris, thanks for your comments and I’m loving your level headed process. I haven’t taken it personally and I welcome an email or comment from Brett.
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