As I have travelled around in the social media world I have always tried to maintain a pretty simple idea when it came to following people on the different services. The numbers of people I followed, or who followed me, were never important. For me it was about finding people who I found interesting and who I might learn new things from. At some point though I fell into the return-follow trap not necessarily for the number counts but because I moved away from that core idea.
In the last few days since taking a holiday from Friendfeed I have begun to wonder about who it is I am following on services like it as well as Facebook or Twitter. Then today I saw a post by Michelle Greer where she was talking about this whole numbers things on social media as well as a video with Seth Godin where he talks briefly about this.
After reading her post and watching Seth’s video I realized that now I had the chance in the lull of my Friendfeed vacation to step back and take a serious look at who I was following and why. For me the take away quote of Seth’s was
“What I really don’t like online is the superficial networking that all the thousands of people who saw friending everybody else … Why … right …. it doesn’t count anything .. it’s just a waste of time
So just as we might rush about friending everyone who friends us or who makes a one-time smart comment maybe there is a time where we should step back and examine those lists. Maybe there are times where we need to get out the broom and dustpan and do some spring cleaning.
If there is one constant in social media that you can always count on it is that 
I just want to make it clear from the start that I have for sometime felt that there is going to be a shake-out in the blogosphere. While I couldn’t really put my finger on the reason I felt that way I knew in my gut that it was coming. The rumblings could be heard in the different corners of places like 
