Ari Herzog

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Why I List My Facebook Friends

Ari Herzog

Facebook defines the news feed as “an ongoing list of updates on your homepage that shows you what’s new with the friends and pages you follow.” Rather, I unfollow them and add people to lists (and you can see the above chart for a breakdown). I visit the lists to see what people are talking about. But, I do.

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Clean Your Social Connections

Ari Herzog

Tip: Dive into your friend list. Create lists. One list could be for people in your geography. Another list could be for people who work in an industry. For instance, here’s a list of mine featuring people who make me go hmm. If you don’t trust a person in your social network, why are you connected?

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Finding Order in Chaos: Month 4

Ari Herzog

Because I started looking at lists in a different light in 2014 than in the past, it’s now irrelevant to me how many I follow. It is irrelevant if I follow a hundred, a thousand, or a hundred thousand — as long the people that matter are in specific lists. Same story on Google+ and Facebook. Thanks for reading.

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How to Gain Productivity

Ari Herzog

There were dozens of blog posts on my Feedly reading list. They had accumulated over the past few weeks and I’d only read a handful of them. While I could have kept reading at a snail’s pace, I decided to mark them all as read and to start fresh the next time I open the program. I already feel accomplished.

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29 Awesome Things You Can Do Now and Every Day

Ari Herzog

Can you recommend other activities to add to this list? Buy products sold out at Target, Walmart, Amazon, and other stores by purchasing them from somewhere else. Start here. Visit a museum anywhere in the world. Listen to NYC’s Metropolitan Opera every day. Watch live camera feeds from the Maryland Zoo. Add a comment below.

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29 Awesome Things You Can Do Now and Every Day

Ari Herzog

Can you recommend other activities to add to this list? Buy products sold out at Target, Walmart, Amazon, and other stores by purchasing them from somewhere else. Start here. Visit a museum anywhere in the world. Listen to NYC’s Metropolitan Opera every day. Watch live camera feeds from the Maryland Zoo. Add a comment below.

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Follow Me, Friend Me, Do Me Wherever

Ari Herzog

On Facebook: Each of my friends is in a list; and aside from close family and close friends, I’m not following anybody. But if you’re not that type of person, we’re friends but I’m not following you and I’ll dip into your list from time to time. You can follow and tweet me here.