Why micro-blog if you have no friends?

I have been asking myself this question many times. The only social media tool/network where I have real friends, is on Facebook. And Facebook is boring. Still I continue to tweet, pownce and stream my heart out. For what good?

Scobleizer writes about the issue with “friend divide:

The friend divide means that people who have no friends on these services have poor experiences and aren’t getting any interesting information or apps or photos or music, etc. People who have tons of friends have HUGELY different experiences on these services.

I know exactly what he means. I have 50 followerson Twitter, but none is my real life friend. Still I read their streams, but to be honest, not with great interest. I mean, how fun can it be to follow someone, like Robert Scoble who is following 21,122 “friends”? And how fun can it be TO FOLLOW 21,122 “friends”? You tell me.

But I in the best of worlds I would have all my Facebook friends on Twitter and in the best of worlds, we all would be twittering our hearts out every single day. Now, that would be fun. No real friends isn’t. But to answer the question how fun it could be to have 21,122, Scoble says:

[...]I really don’t care if I have a single follower. If I defined myself by my followers I’d always feel inadequate. If I define myself by the people who I follow, well, I follow the smartest, richest, coolest, funniest people in the world. That makes me smarter, richer, cooler, and funnier [...].

Perhaps this is why Robert Socble is such a well-known person. It is us who are his “friends” that makes him well-known.