You might imagine that I’m really busy since I haven’t posted on my blog for over a month. Well, I’m not, I have just been finding other things to do: reading a book, hanging out with friends or watching a movie. Luckily enough, I found some free time to update this blog. Also, opened a Romania blog, BoGD.ro, where I drop all my thoughts.

Since I’m a pretty active user on Digg and StumbleUpon, I get several requests for digging, voting or commenting every day. I’m always glad to help out when I’m asked. But I’ve noticed in the past months that social media has started becoming an automated process, where everything resumes to voting each other’s stuff without the slighest intend to socialize. I don’t understand why common sense is not applied online as it is done offline.

Some people think that because they have me added on IM, they can start asking for favors. Some even call me “friend” even if they don’t know my name. I for one like to start by introducing myself, asking a few details about the person I just befriended so that I can start asking small favors.

I think there is such a thing as friends online, but they’re not done by spamming them with links, asking for votes or shouts. If you have 200 friends on digg, it doesn’t mean that you can start asking for comments and shouts to each one. Start by telling me where did you get my IM from, tell me your name and what you do. Then we can establish a basic relationship. I’ve started deleting people that start by seding messages like “can you digg [link]?“, it’s too much.

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