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Originally Posted by Catlady
I can and do keep track of what I read, with a comment or two. The only point of joining a social media site would be to interact with other people, and if they're crazy ... do I really want to deal with even more crazy people?
I realize that this current brouhaha isn't the norm for the site, but it's still a turn-off.
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Ravensknight made a good point about keeping your profile private. Another thing I do is only friend people that I know outside of GR. Whether I know that person professionally, from another social media site or even a web forum like this one, I have to know that person from somewhere else. This allows me to only friend people who I suspect will be cool. Not all of my friends review books that interest me but sometimes a friend will read a book and this will make me interested in a book that I never would have heard of otherwise. The opposite also happens. Sometimes I end up getting into a conversation about a book that another friend happened to have read too.
Mostly I just use GR to keep track of the books I've read, rate and/or review those books and see what my friends are reading. I have to say that the drama I read about with other GR users doesn't affect me.