A World Of Friends
Friday, May 28th, 2010A World Of Friends
Here’s a word whose meaning has changed over the last several years – “friends”. When in the course of human history did people ever keep count of their friends? Well, we seem to be doing so today.
First MySpace, then Facebook. At first I laughed at the joke of all this – everybody on this mad dash to collect friends like dollars. “How many friends do you have? Oh, are you really that popular?” Sort of high school revisited…
But then Facebook sort of came along and developed the concept to a higher level. Rather than just friend counting, it actually gave us the ability to renew old friendships, to catch up, to find related ones.
