Comments on: What do we mean: Friends?

By: Ed

Ed — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 13:58:48 +0000

I’m a believer in the increasing seam-less-ness of the two domains so I’d say they were complimentary, nay ‘augment’ eachother.

Matt Blackbelt Jones was showing us all http://www.dopplr.com at a recent Bristol gathering. I’ve been on it for a bit, but hadn’t noticed:

1. their studious avoidance of the word ‘friend’
2. the more intelligent settings about the direction of the relationship (it’s not instantly mutual)

so we are clearly going to see a more sophisticated approach to this stuff. Good.

By: Rick Hurst

Rick Hurst — Wed, 19 Sep 2007 18:08:06 +0000

i’ve argued about this loads of times – for most people online and offline friends are one and the same – all my online social networking crosses over into “real life” – geek forums and mailing list, skateboard forums – i’ve met the majority of the people who I talk to online, some I met first offline, some I met online.

By: Monty

Monty — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 13:17:24 +0000

In my opinion, there's a clear distinction between real world friends and online friends. Some of my friends are online and real-world too, but still, the nature of the relationship is different in each platform. The interesting thing is, that virtual friends are not all the same. Some of them are naturally closer than others. I use 8hands to manage my online social life, and it has a Friend ranking feature that shows my top 8 friends, based on my amount of communication with each of them.