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Die Facebook-Falle des Heiko Maas

Die Facebook-Falle des Heiko Maas

Früher war alles ganz einfach. Im Kanzleramt, den Ministerien und den Partei-, Gewerkschafts-, NGO- und Arbeitgeber-Zentralen saßen die Spin-Doctors und ersannen politische Kampagnen.

Deren Sinn und Zweck wurde dann wohlmeinenden Journalisten in Hintergrundgesprächen nahegebracht. Nach Pressekonferenz oder -Mitteilung waren die Blätter, die Nachrichtensendungen und Internetkanäle voll davon. Es…

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#2 Getting rid of friends – or let’s say gate-keeping the news feed

You most probably heard about the shift of media consumption, how newspapers are dying and more and more the customized news are coming up.  Seriously, I wish there would be somebody in charge of my Facebook news feed – the internet is not intelligent enough – yet. When I met a friend from high school who visited Oahu this week, I realized that I should be a little ashamed of how badly focused my news feed is and that this has and is about to change soon.

Everybody’s talking about how the new media channels are changing our media consumption habits: The internet makes the people chose what they want to read. iGoogle let’s you create your own newspaper, nobody wants to have journalists as gatekeepers but to chose themselves what they read, the old fashioned news made from dead trees won’t exist anymore in less than ten years. This made me a little sad when I heard it first, but this is not what this article should be about. It is about old relationships from middle and high school and why on earth we do not have gate-keepers for Facebook. I graduated from high school in 2007 and of course I met a lot of people during these thirteen years – also people I probably would not even remember when we did not have Facebook. Until 2010, there were mostly college attendants on Facebook (in Germany). Since then, everyone I knew from school joined Facebook and a lot of people who probably would not even say “Hi” to me added me as a friend. I did not mind adding them as friends, maybe because I was interested what they were up to. Some of them even had kids while I was still working on my master’s degree. Over the months, I learnt a lot about people I haven’t seen or talked to for about ten years, saw their pictures, knew were they spent their holidays and could figure out how much they like the work they are going to every day. I exchanged messages with maybe five (of more than 100) of them. That’s okay, it is their choice how much they want to share on Facebook. But what about my other friends? The real ones?

Last week I met a friend from high school who was in Hawai’i for some days for holidays. In college we hang out together a lot since we had the same friends and at that time I knew what he was doing. He is on Facebook, but he rarely shares anything and his profile picture is more than a year old. I never cared much, but when we met, I realized that I know almost nothing about what he did with his life during the past years. I heard that he is about to go to college starting this fall, but that’s it. He told me about his every-day-life, his new girl friend and his holidays in personal. It was good to hear it from him and not from the news feed. It is also much more connecting not to be able to tell him that “I have seen this on Facebook already”.

Now I am wondering:

#1 Why should I waste my time reading stuff from people I most probably will never talk to again? #2 Is it good to share a lot on Facebook so I have less to share (personally) with those friends I really care about?

I am not sure about #2 yet, since I have always been trying not share too much of my private life (even though I can’t resist uploading beautiful pictures of my holidays). About #1, I will definitely try to get rid of all those people I somehow met but don’t really need to be 100% up to date. Just one week ago, I could have done this through removing them from my news feed.

Ironically, since yesterday, Facebook introduced smart lists. It helps you organizing the connections on Facebook after school, work or location and you can put them into three categories: “Close friends”, “Acquaintances” and “Restricted”. Close friends will appear more often in the news feed while restricted friends will see less of your profile than the other random people you met and put in the “acquaintances” category. In addition to that, you can display your best friends separately. Now, I just have to do the effort to organize the approximately 500 “friends” into groups.