"I follow Danny on Google Plus, and filed him away in the appropriate circle."
He's doing it wrong. You don't file people by their interests, you file people based on how interested you are in them. I have family, close friends, acquaintances, and people that i'm following who I don't know. The main problem with Facebook is the large number of people who I'm connected to (and want to be connected to), but I don't care about their status updates.
Most people end up going into acquaintances and 'following', but that is how it is in real life too.
My close family and friends group has plenty of action, because I have stuff to talk with them about.
Tagging posts or users based on what it is about is ultimately an intractable management problem for the end user.
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"I follow Danny on Google Plus, and filed him away in the appropriate circle."
He's doing it wrong. You don't file people by their interests, you file people based on how interested you are in them. I have family, close friends, acquaintances, and people that i'm following who I don't know. The main problem with Facebook is the large number of people who I'm connected to (and want to be connected to), but I don't care about their status updates.
Most people end up going into acquaintances and 'following', but that is how it is in real life too.
My close family and friends group has plenty of action, because I have stuff to talk with them about.
Tagging posts or users based on what it is about is ultimately an intractable management problem for the end user.
Saying that someone is 'doing it wrong' on a social network is doing it wrong. The average user isn't going to think deeply about this stuff.