I’ts catching up with us.  Our new found friends.  How do we keep all these friends organized.  In college, I’d meet a few dozen new people every semester.  Out in the workforce, (as a young graduate) I met a dozen people a week. With social media backpacks like twitter and facebook, I now meet a dozen new people a day.  So how do we manage all our new social media friends? 

Of course, more apps!

I enjoyed Chris Dannen’s blog on the topic today.

Too Many Social Network Updates? Two Tools for Filtering the Nobodies – Article: Fast Company -

The problem: these apps work. Often too well–the basin is overflowing.

When I look at my Facebook News Feed, Google Talk list and my Twitter client, here’s what I see: old friends, workmates, acquaintances, and then, in a much smaller group, real friends. In an article this week entitled, “What’s a Friend Worth?” BusinessWeek writer John Byrne went straight to the source–Facebook HQ in Palo Alto–to figure out just how many real friends a given Facebook user actually has in his or her network.

via Too Many Social Network Updates? Two Tools for Filtering the Nobodies | TechWatch | Fast Company.

Chris, mentioned two new tools PeopleBrowsr and Zensify.  I ultimately have another old post I plan to update that talks about Facebook and the need for both work, friends, family, and social streams.  Add some privacy controls and make groups a standard element that might cross a major stream group and you might begin to mimick the complexity of real life early social interactions.

We are getting there… but there’s got to be a way to filter and purge the firneds that didn’t quite make it into that long term social pals short list.  After all, there’s only 24 hours in a day.