Yesterday, Chris Brogan and I published a collaborative on the Keys to the Gates (of Social Media). If you haven’t read that post, you should definitely get down with it — a lot of the notions behind the gates idea danced around the weight and impact on social media as it is affected by niceties.

If everyone utilizes social media (networks) in different ways — is there an impact when you do not friend those who befriend you? What about if you automatically reciprocate any request to connect with you?

We both took a look internally in our follow-up collaboration when we considered How Being Nice Impacts the Value of Social Networks — and man we brought Eric Rice into the mix to weigh in on the entire scenario. Dig this second installment, posted on Eric’s site and remember to guard yo grill because this is live on all sides (and be sure to lay down some of your own thoughts about the niceties in the discussion happenin’ on Eric’s site).