And from the other side, I've had good success reaching out to people in response to something posted on the web. An email only takes 5 minutes, and it can lead to a life-changing new friend, project and business.
Building friend catchers
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#12Some people here seem to be talking about them as in making actual friends, but it's more in the sense of a friendly party (e.g. followers who have gratitude due to something you've provided for free) rather than the kind of traditional friendship experience we actually have one on one conversations with.
https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Apatio11%20friend-catcher...
just worth noting.
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#13I really want to believe in this, but from personal experience it hasn't worked out. I used to spend a lot of time posting frequently on LinkedIn, nothing came out of it. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, maybe there's survivor bias in the success stories, who knows.
I've had the same experience on linkedin, and I think it's because a lot of the content is not specific enough, it increasingly feels like facebook.
I think there may be other places with a higher density of very specific purpose, like angel.co
edit: this point is made in the article - "The beginners guides to everything have already been written. What’s missing is more advanced content."
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#14Author here, happy to see this got picked up!
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#15Some people here seem to be talking about them as in making actual friends, but it's more in the sense of a friendly party (e.g. followers who have gratitude due to something you've provided for free) rather than the kind of traditional friendship experience we actually have one on one conversations with. https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Apatio11%20friend-catcher... just worth noting.
Author here, I think a lot of the examples I made are friends for life!
The projects I started working on with strangers are mostly dead, but I still meet up and spend a lot of time with a handful of them. Even the example I made of Francesco and Fabrizio are of people that met online serendipitously and now have been business partners and friends for almost 10 years
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#16The new friend catchers are all on Discord.
Really. I'm finding Discord has a really high surface tension. By that I mean that I bounce off servers because so often nothing interesting is happening and I can't see anything to drag me back
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#17I really want to believe in this, but from personal experience it hasn't worked out. I used to spend a lot of time posting frequently on LinkedIn, nothing came out of it. Maybe I didn't try hard enough, maybe there's survivor bias in the success stories, who knows.
> I used to spend a lot of time posting frequently on LinkedIn Maybe it's just the people I have added on LinkedIn but it always strikes me as a very superficial place and not the one for deeper connections or discussions about projects. Twitter on the other side seems to be more promising (at least in my case).
I'll throw in Reddit into the mix. For deeper discussions about projects, it has a way better interface than Twitter, and also as a "newcomer" you have way better chances if you pick out the right communities. One other factor is probably also frequency of posting.
While my posting cadence of "something interesting" every few months works well for Reddit, that's not something that gets people to follow and engage with you on Twitter.
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#18 I don't know, I think your dad's advide is pretty spot on? Just that it isn't mutually exclusive with the fact that IF you want to be recognized by the content you put up, you'll have to associate your name with it.
I started surfing the web in the early 00's when I was like 3 or 4 yo so it sticked to me the whole nickname thing way before asking for First Name and Last Name, cell phone, ID number, street address was the norm (depending on the service ofc)
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#19I don't know, I think your dad's advide is pretty spot on? Just that it isn't mutually exclusive with the fact that IF you want to be recognized by the content you put up, you'll have to associate your name with it. I started surfing the web in the early 00's when I was like 3 or 4 yo so it sticked to me the whole nickname thing way before asking for First Name and Last Name, cell phone, ID number, street address was…
Yeah righto mate, you started browsing the web when you were 3?
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#20I don't know, I think your dad's advide is pretty spot on? Just that it isn't mutually exclusive with the fact that IF you want to be recognized by the content you put up, you'll have to associate your name with it. I started surfing the web in the early 00's when I was like 3 or 4 yo so it sticked to me the whole nickname thing way before asking for First Name and Last Name, cell phone, ID number, street address was…
Yeah righto mate, you started browsing the web when you were 3?
Why is that weird? I recall starting videogames around that time, and if the internet had been easier to access I probably would have been on there as well.