… or not so much.

Follow Friday.  Every Friday morning I open my twitter feed and it’s flooded with #ff, #FF, #followfriday, etc (ad infinitum).  Now, for as long as I’ve been on Twitter, I have never understood the trend.  I mean, I get the idea, but to me it kinda smacks of a forced commercial holiday that makes you feel obligated to buy a card and ‘celebrate’ some arbitrarily designated special day ’cause everyone else is doing it… Valentine’s day comes to mind (so does Mothers’ Day. Don’t hate.)

Why do we need to dedicate a day to recommendations?  Can’t that happen all week long – as you discover interesting people, you pass them along to your friends?  Try “Check out @example. We just had a really interesting convo about xyz.”  If  your followers are interested, they will check it out.  Otherwise, it’s just a popularity contest.

I find it interesting that very few (if any) of the social media peeps I follow on Twitter participate in #ff.  There’s probably a reason for that…