I've noticed that there's a bit of a silent convention regarding Facebook friendships. It's ok to become friends with people you never speak to. Even just to say hello, how are you? Last time I spoke to you was in kindergarten, what have you been doing since 1983? And so on... Something of a statement there perhaps on modern society.
posted by Iqbal Khaldun @ 9:04 AM
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Facebook’s members are more likely to be richer, better educated and have more prestigious jobs, according to Nielsen NetRatings. Half of Facebook’s British members are university-educated. On MySpace it is a third and on Bebo it is a quarter. Facebook has a higher share of students, professionals, executives and teachers, and the highest proportion of households with a shared income of more than £50,000. So Facebook members are much more likely to be prickly, middle-class adults fearful of becoming social pariahs.
Sonia Livingstone, Professor of Social Psychology at the London School of Economics, said that snubbing people on Facebook differs from real-world snubs because it takes place in a sharply defined moment. “We’re used to snubbing people. We don’t call them back. We don’t answer their holiday postcards. We say we’ll meet up with them for a drink when we have no intention of doing so. But here there is a very evident decision moment.”
Source: http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article2039665.ece
Spot on Jean!
Actually it's quite funny. Not that I make a habit of it (ahum), but there's a few 'friends' of mine on Facebook I've noticed spend their entire time making 'friends' with people without actually being friendly. These same people tend to be insufferable in real life... Oh and fit all the other descriptions the good Prof from LSE has mentioned.
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