Comments on: The Meaning Of Friendship

By: Mike English dot Net » virtual friendship

Mike English dot Net » virtual friendship — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 00:48:28 +0000

[...] In response to Michael Arrington’s post, The Meaning Of Friendship. [...]

By: توبيكات

توبيكات — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:44:18 +0000

Friendship allows people to see what you are doing online. I think the best way to look at it is if you know that person offline, like went to school with them then friend them. But that doesn’t mean you guys are friends or even really talk

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 06:37:27 +0000

Be cool around them!DON’T BE MEAN!OK!GOT IT!

By: rai

rai — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 11:02:07 +0000

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By: carol

carol — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 17:03:47 +0000

You are so so right,people need to stop and think about what affect this has on their family life, when the real people that care the most are right there in front of them.

By: Pixelnews » Blog Archive » Amicalement virtuellement vôtre -

Pixelnews » Blog Archive » Amicalement virtuellement vôtre - — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:31:57 +0000

[...] Mais pour le reste, ils virtualisent le virtuel. Et l’un des grands enjeux du moment et de donner un sens à ce nuage de pseudos. De redéfinir l’amitié, les “friends” ou autres [...]

By: Nikola Ranguelov

Fri, 16 Jan 2009 07:01:14 +0000

I’ve always been fascinated by all the different ways people find to use the same tool… in this case Facebook describes itself as a “social networking tool” that just so happens to define the people you connect with as friends without providing a scale of “closeness” or “seriousness” to rank each friendship by.

I think it’s fine that everyone has their own idea of who they become friends with and who they don’t wish to have any link what-so-ever with. The only problems arise when a person with a certain idea of how things “should work” attempts to push their own personal idea onto others … and then there’s drama! (Why?)

By: Online Friendship - Definition Defined in 2009 - ChurchCrunch

Online Friendship - Definition Defined in 2009 - ChurchCrunch — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:11:34 +0000

[...] posted an intriguing thought-stream by the founder a few days ago titled: “The Meaning of Friendship“. Quote: The social networks themselves, and those of us who spend a lot of time there, are [...]

By: 온라인 친구의 정의 (2) :: Channy’s Blog

온라인 친구의 정의 (2) :: Channy’s Blog — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 09:02:35 +0000

[...] 벌어지고 있는 미국에서는 20대 이상의 늙은(?) 인터넷 사용자들이 ‘온라인 친구의 정의‘에 대한 복잡하다고 느끼는 것 같다. “오프라인에서 이미 알고 [...]

By: On Friendships « Reflections of a Math Teacher

On Friendships « Reflections of a Math Teacher — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 11:29:01 +0000

[...] of months evaluating the friendships I’ve formed so far. And then, I’ve stumbled upon this article from TechCrunch, and realized that with the boom of social networks, the definition of friendships [...]

By: RAM

RAM — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 06:33:23 +0000

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By: Deeario - il blog di Tony Siino - “Amici” su facebook

Deeario - il blog di Tony Siino - “Amici” su facebook — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 11:04:46 +0000

[...] tratti. Eppure il concetto di amicizia oggi sta cambiando (una lettura interessante sul tema è The meaning of friendship ma alcuni spunti girano già da tempo). Forse dovremmo accettarlo invece di puntare i piedi [...]

By: WebTechMan

WebTechMan — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 17:07:45 +0000

Do we really need to define everything in our lives?
What are friends, really?
You may find the description of Friendship interesting at http://en.wikip...wiki/Friendship This is what makes XHTML Friends Network (XFN) & Friend of a Friend (FOAF) markup so interesting and funny. The idea about this type of markup is to give web publishers simple methods to describe HTML links to other people & machines. You can learn more about this and Google’s Social Graph project at http://webtechm...riends-network/

It’s a basic human instinct to connect with things around us and especially other people. I have friends that I have known for many years and friends that I have only connected with for a few minutes.

It’s not you, it’s me… LOL
Actually it’s what you give, not what you get.

PEACE

By: 在线好友究竟是什么？ - O记实录

在线好友究竟是什么？ - O记实录 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 14:24:17 +0000

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The PHA : Bookmarks for December 28th from 04:22 to 04:22 — Sun, 28 Dec 2008 13:01:18 +0000

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By: Mike English

Mike English — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 07:25:46 +0000

Hm, apparently my trackback didn’t work.
I wrote a response to this shortly after it was posted.

I think “buckets” are good enough.

http://mikeengl...ual-friendship/

By: Arrington got owned, fight back!!!

Arrington got owned, fight back!!! — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 00:36:19 +0000

http://timothys...h-conversation/

By: Dave Reid

Dave Reid — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:42:09 +0000

I’ve always felt these sites needed groups as a first start to handling what kind of “friends” someone’s contacts are or are not. But it seems to me these sites should also be able to rank people by interactions as well.

By: nemrut

nemrut — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 21:38:48 +0000

..so who’s a friend?

@Loic defines it as someone he feels comfortable calling at 3am if in need of help

@Scobleizer defines it as a ‘continuum’ where the ball gets rolling via the ‘kindness of strangers’ effect

@Lorenfeldman defines it in black & white (ie youre either a friend or your not)

It seems with the advent of all the new social networking outlets, anyone can be a ‘friend’ if there’s a mutual desire to reach out. The question is whether one can overlook the flaws of others in RL, which in essence, is the main determinate in whether a friendship grows stronger.

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Teiteste funksjon i det sosiale nettets historie? — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 19:42:38 +0000

[...] en interessant post fra TechCrunch om vennskap på nettet, kommer jeg over en lenke som får meg til å heve øyenbrynene over [...]

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Sachin Balagopalan — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 18:58:04 +0000

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By: Nellboy

Nellboy — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 15:02:23 +0000

Most people are lucky if they even have one true friend… everyone else is just an acquaintance anyway, sure, acquaintances that we like, but why should online friendship be any different?…

people get too touchy on the subject of friendship… it’s fleeting, and in the end, nobody really owns anybody else…

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By: limo london

limo london — Fri, 26 Dec 2008 06:16:51 +0000

it seems someone deleted my comment from here, but what i wanted to say was this is an amazing post and really led me to introspect in a lot of ways.

By: Adam Jackson

Fri, 26 Dec 2008 05:42:05 +0000

Loren, I moved to San Francisco 6 months ago. I only knew maybe a dozen people and used Upcoming.org to find tech parties.

Fast forward to last week. A simple post to my facebook status or twitter status about wanting to go have a drink and I have people responding that actually are ready to meet up.

These are people I am really friends with and social networks haven’t failed me at all. My goal has ALWAYS been to turn internet relationships into real life relationships and I’ve done that. Internet friendships and real friendships are a two way street. I add people on Twitter and facebook that I met in real life and people that add me online always get a message from me and I hope to meet them in the future.

When traveling to a new city, i try to find people in my field that are up for meeting to have a drink. If you’re solely making and losing friendships via the web without any real life interaction with these people, that’s your fault but social networking isn’t a failure and has made my move across country a lot more pleasurable.