How do you maintain weak ties?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpersonal_ties#Research_da...
Like people you see once a year or less, maybe because they live far away, or maybe they're locals you met once or twice but just don't know that well.
Weak ties can be incredibly valuable for finding events, housing (or roommates), partners, even jobs.
I've been living happily without Facebook for over a year and doing fine. But I realized I didn't have a solution to the weak tie problem, and was missing out on opportunities.
Visiting New York City, I met some great people and thought how nice it would be to hang out with those same people next time I'm in NYC, so I wouldn't have to start over there socially. But that could be a year from now. After a year of no contact, if I call them out of the blue, it'd be awkward at best.
This problem actually motivated me to sign back up for Facebook. In theory any social network could do the trick, but no one's heard of Tent or Diaspora, and only a handful of people you meet are even on Twitter. What most of these folks are on, is Facebook.
I'd really like to know what other ways people keep up with weak ties, or if some just hate Facebook so much they accept the loss of opportunities as a cost of living without it.