Acquaintances
It occurred to me today that I might need to re-arrange my buddy list on Trillian sometime in the near future. Right now it's arranged more or less by where I met each person. I've got people that I knew mostly from high school, people I knew mostly from college, people from BigBlueBall, even a “Miscellaneous” category.
I've even had to break up some of the groups into sub-groups. There are plenty of people on my college list that I haven't talked to for several years, yet I can't convince myself to simply delete their screennames because “what if…” — what if one of these days around the corner I need to ask them something? So in the meantime, they're corralled into a sub-group that I leave collapsed unless I need to contact them. Meaning that group is permanently collapsed.
Anyway… back on topic. I'm wondering if, now that I've been out of college for a good while, I need to re-arrange my list. Instead of grouping people by where they had the good fortune to bask in my awesomeness for the first time, maybe a better idea would be degree of relation.
Then I'd have categories like “bestest friends” or maybe just “bff” for short. Of course, that category would be empty. That's fine though.
I'd have categories like “close friends” and “sorta friends.” And “they think they're my friends,” “I think I vaguely remember meeting this person once,” and “Who are these people?”
Of course there'd have to be at least one category of “Just acquaintances” for those people who you could nod your head at when you pass them in public, but if pressed for their name, you'd have to make up something that sounds plausible and hope no one knows the right answer. And who could forget the need for a group like “Can't stand these” — although I imagine I could more easily delete those contacts.
Hmm, who knows. One of these days I shall have to take a look at it. In the meantime, I really just don't care that much, and don't have that much time what with this new jobby thingy. Ideas? How do you arrange your buddylist acquaintance list?
MrEggsalad said,
May 11, 2007, 7:31 pm
I have my acquaintance list set up like this:
Family
Better Buddies
BigBlueBall
Buddies
Work/Neowin
Pretty much, if I actually know them I group them into either Better Buddies or just Buddies (since I only add friends), BigBlueBall is everyone from BBB, Work/Neowin is a combo between people I meet for work stuff and people at Neowin, then my Family which is people related to me.
Wendy said,
May 11, 2007, 11:02 pm
I have my buddy list separated into “Family” “Nebraska” and “Wisconsin”. “Wisconsin” consists of people I know from the time I spent in Wisconsin, aka most of my life, so high school friend, twirling friends, other people from before college. “Nebraska” consist of all of my college friends, or people I met during college. (I'm going to have to start a new list this fall, “Colorado”). “Family” is pretty self-evident, although I have some non-family members in it, such as my sister's boyfriend and a former foreign exchange student. My boyfriend has his buddy list separted into two groups “friends” and “girlfriend's family”.
Dan said,
May 21, 2007, 8:30 pm
I have two categories: Online, and offline. =)
FlyingKiwi said,
June 16, 2007, 12:01 am
Personally, depending on the two set ups I use…it goes like this:
AIM
MSN
Yahell
Gmail
Offline
(I've been playing with the idea of having just “Online/Offline”)
or
Buddies
Family
Folks
Bitches and Hos
Why are You Here
Offline
and I have the same issue…where I never ever seem to want to delete anyone “just incase”. MSN is the worst for this because people constantly change their damn names. I have issues in general because I just rename everyone anyway, then it's forgotten as soon as I reformat. *sigh* Que Sera.