Relationships

Facebook and Friendship

April 24, 2010

People, in effect, opt in to a relationship with you. And the flip side of this is that they can also opt out of that relationship at any moment.

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Are Online Friends “Real Friends”?

June 25, 2009

I understand the desire to differentiate between those relationships in daily life and those that exist online. I understand that there are different dimensions and dynamics to both. What I struggle with though is the implication that friendships formed online are in some way inferior, trivial or ‘unreal.’

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