Addiction on facebook made me rethink the idea of friend.
What does it really means when you have a friend?
As the music goes...........You've got a friend.
while i was in high school, i clearly knew that who was my friend and who was my classmate. I do think i am a person with many friends. according to my definition.
Now adays, everyone got at least 100 "friends" in facebook, twitter.
I like the wording used by flickr more - a contact.
Although i knew all "friends" in facebook, most of them are merely "contacts".
There are people that i really want to make them my friends, where we share our moments, thoughts, believes, views. Yet it's really difficult. We all spend so much time commenting on each others' post yet we never get to tell them our thoughts directly. Because we did already, through all those web20 tools.
Love the quote by Merlin Mann (writter of 43 folders):
If you need to appear on an internet list to know whether you're someone's friend, you may have problems a computer can't solve.
am i your friend?
p.s. i am sure if my mom got facebook, she'll have > 1000 friends insted of contacts!
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