Over the last few years, I have built up quite a few very good friends on Propeller.com. Many have been a part of the Propeller (Netscape) community from day one and each day these fine folks offer story submissions and commentary to the site through its comment threads that I enjoy reading on a daily basis.
Managing my 'Friends' list is certainly an ongoing process...I try to purge my list at least once a month as members to the site as they do on all social sites seem to come and go. For instance, if a friend has had no activity on the site in the last 45 days or so, I remove he or she from my list. On average, I add 2 to 3 people per week to my list which is only a fraction of the Friends request that I may receive in a week. Needless to say, I am very big on completed profile pages that details ones hobbies and/or interests that seem to mirror my interests. Currently I am befriended to around 130 folks on the social news site - most of these people submit articles daily but quite a few are more than satisfied by just proping (voting) on articles or commenting. Without question, the community that makes up Propeller.com is one of the most mature and intelligent within social news today.
In following my friends on Propeller, I make it a point a couple times a day to go into my profile page and click 'Friends Submissions' which allows me to see the articles that my pals have submitted to the site. I read the articles that interest me and will often prop but the others I pretty much ignore and skip over. Its my very strong belief that if I voted on all of my friends submissions that these folks would become clueless as to what I was really interested in and enjoyed reading, thus destroying the primary purpose of social news. I can also track my friends comments by clicking on that person's profile page and then clicking 'Comments'.
On a related note, earlier this year Propeller management brought back the ability to easily share your submissions with your friends via the 'Share' option. This option allows you to send a heads up of your submission to a 'Group' or up to 25 individuals (friends). You can also e-mail your submission to someone who may not use Propeller or at least use it on a daily basis. While this option is very popular within the Propeller community, many like myself will not use it for all submissions. Why? Frankly I submit between 5 to 10 articles a day but not all of them have the same meaning or importance to me - thus I only use the 'Share' option on articles that I find to be the most interesting and thus what I suspect would be of most interesting to my friends. Just imagine, If we all sent out notifications of all of our submissions our 'Site Mail' boxes within Propeller would become very cluttered.
As Propeller gets ready to celebrate its 3 year anniversary next month,
Happy Propelling To All
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