{"id":7481,"date":"2008-12-08T18:32:42","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/lets_ban_friend_collecting.html"},"modified":"2008-12-08T18:32:42","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:32:42","slug":"lets-ban-friend-collecting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/lets-ban-friend-collecting.html","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s Ban Friend Collecting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><meta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"><meta content=\"Word.Document\" name=\"ProgId\"><meta content=\"Microsoft Word 12\" name=\"Generator\"><meta content=\"Microsoft Word 12\" name=\"Originator\"><link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CUsers%5CRTEHRA%7E1.NTD%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_filelist.xml\" rel=\"File-List\" \/><link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CUsers%5CRTEHRA%7E1.NTD%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_themedata.thmx\" rel=\"themeData\" \/><link href=\"file:\/\/\/C:%5CUsers%5CRTEHRA%7E1.NTD%5CAppData%5CLocal%5CTemp%5Cmsohtmlclip1%5C01%5Cclip_colorschememapping.xml\" rel=\"colorSchemeMapping\" \/><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>\nNormal\n0false\nfalse\nfalse\nEN-US\nX-NONE\nX-NONE\nMicrosoftInternetExplorer4\n<\/xml><![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]><![endif]--><\/p>\n<style type=\"text\/css\">\n<!--\n\/* Font Definitions *\/\n@font-face\n{\"Cambria Math\";\npanose-1:2 4 5 3 5 4 6 3 2 4;}\n@font-face\n{\npanose-1:2 15 5 2 2 2 4 3 2 4;}\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\np.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal\n{\nmso-style-parent:\"\";\nmargin-top:0in;\nmargin-right:0in;\nmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\nmargin-left:0in;\nline-height:115%;\nfont-size:11.0pt;\"Calibri\",\"sans-serif\";\nmso-bidi-\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoChpDefault\n{\nmso-bidi-\"Times New Roman\";}\n.MsoPapDefault\n{\nmargin-bottom:10.0pt;\nline-height:115%;}\n@page Section1\n{size:8.5in 11.0in;\nmargin:1.0in 1.0in 1.0in 1.0in;}\ndiv.Section1\n{page:Section1;}\n-->\n<\/style>\n<p><!--[if gte mso 10]>\n\n\n<style>\n\/* Style Definitions *\/\ntable.MsoNormalTable\n{mso-style-name:\"Table Normal\";\nmso-style-parent:\"\";\nline-height:115%;\nfont-size:11.0pt;\"Calibri\",\"sans-serif\";}\n<\/style>\n\n\n<![endif]-->  <\/p>\n<div>Social networks have great potential but there are some things that bother me about them. Recently I accepted an invite from someone who is in the industry.<\/div>\n<p>The next day I received an email from a childhood friend asking why this other person from the communications industry was trying to connect.<\/p>\n<p>Connecting to any and every breathing person on social networks is called fried collecting and to be honest it makes me uncomfortable when it is being done to my friends and business partners.s<\/p>\n<div>Am I too sensitive? What&#8217;s your take?<\/div>\n<p>    <\/meta><\/meta><\/meta><\/meta><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Social networks have great potential but there are some things that bother me about them. Recently I accepted an invite from someone who is in the industry. The next day I received an email from a childhood friend asking why this other person from the communications industry was trying to connect. Connecting to any and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,206,118,191],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}