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I know most of my friends on Facebook from some area of life or another. If you really think about it, Facebook was the first Internet service where it was generally expected that you knew the person you were connecting with from the real world. Most Myspace profiles were fully open to the public when Facebook became popular among college students; AOL actually let you search members to IM by geographic location, interests, age, etc., and ICQ even moreso.
All I can say is that as much as Facebook friendships are maligned for being "shallow", a few of my Facebook friends - a girl I graduated high school with but didn't know anything about later, and a girl who ride my school bus back in 2001 - were instrumental in bettering my life and winching me out dire ruts when they saw my sad status updates. Facebook was a major force in organizing the small benefit held for me.
I have a friend named Sue. Actually, “Sue” isn’t her real name, and she isn’t really a friend: she’s something akin to a lost sorority sister—we went to the same college, participated in the same activities and had a lot of mutual respect and admiration for one another.
I have a friend named Sue. Actually, “Sue” isn’t her real name, and she isn’t really a friend: she’s something akin to a lost sorority sister—we went to the same college, participated in the same activities and had a lot of mutual respect and admiration for one another.
All my friends are on city-data forum. Seriously, I have more interaction with personalities (agreeing, disagreeing) on different forums than I do in real life. Real life is basically small talk, benign, low risk topics, weather kids, neighborhood. Never about religion, personal relationships, sex, history, demographics, anthropology, or personal finance <- it's hard to talk about these things with anyone except your spouse and city data forum.
Geez, you have my deepest sympathies.....
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