Facebook's takeover of the Internet
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Assumptions.
No, but one must understand the large body of ocean to traverse or air transport required to see other friends non local. Cost =
Internet = 
Edit: I see where this is going. "Facebook makes this easier". Well, for you yes, me no. Learned how to deal with it before social sites came about, that's all I'm saying, not bashing FB!
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I know personally (as in could meet up with) around 95% of the 300 or so people on my friends list. I know some people who have majority of unknowns on their lists though.
How can you know 300 people in enough detail and uhh "camaraderie" to be friends? Is it networking is that what you mean? if its that then yeah i understand.
I find maintaining friend relationship with a handful of friends difficult nevermind 300 ??
I'm genuinely curious.
Do you have different levels of "friend" on facebook? Do you have people you communicate with once a day, once a week, once a month? Also the same question with different levels of trust of that friend i.e. some conversations you only speak about with friends because you trust them etc and other friends you only speak about which party they are going to (so more like party/event updates??) I dont know ive never used facebook.
I have family, friends and some work people (not many though). I've worked all over the UK and met lots of people who I have become friends with and wouldn't have an issue meeting up with should I be in town one night on my own.
Of course I have levels of friends in regards to trust, that is no different to anyones normal friendships surely?
Assumptions.
No, but one must understand the large body of ocean to traverse or air transport required to see other friends non local. Cost =
Edit: I see where this is going. "Facebook makes this easier". Well, for you yes, me no. Learned how to deal with it before social sites came about, that's all I'm saying, not bashing FB!
I'm not saying do you go and see friends across the water. That would be costly and yes kinda hard to do often. I'm asking if you were in town with nothing to do, would you see them.
Is it mostly friends or networking though? If its friends then how do you keep in touch with them all? Ahh wait facebook probably makes it easier? You can post updates about your life on there and all you friends see it? So its easier than phoning and speaking to them all i guess? And they can make comments on your stuff and you can do the same. So facebook is a communication tool that makes it much much easier to manage being friends with a lot of people really.
Main reason because nowadays people travel more and distance is not so much a barrier, meeting more people. Whereas in ye olde days most of your friends were from your town/village/city and thats it.
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That's actually a good way of describing the site.
I have a lot of message conversations, but as a lot of my friends are connected its sometimes easier to chat via wall (profile viewable content) posts.
You can't beat a good face to face or phone conversation in a lot of circumstances though
^^ yeah agree with that. I can understand using facebook to keep in touch with people who youve met in person and who you want to keep in touch with ie physical friends. But using it to add online friends only seems strange to me.
Reason why i'm asking is someone wants me to join facebook as a way of keeping in touch with them when i move abroad. I'm undecided whether to do so because we arent really friends...more colleagues (we dont socialize outside work etc though tbh i'm unsure on how one defines a friend)
If i dont know someone as a friend in person then i would be very reluctant to treat them as a friend online.
Reason why i'm asking is someone wants me to join facebook as a way of keeping in touch with them when i move abroad. I'm undecided whether to do so because we arent really friends...more colleagues (we dont socialize outside work etc though tbh i'm unsure on how one defines a friend)
If i dont know someone as a friend in person then i would be very reluctant to treat them as a friend online.
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I didn't mean it in a derogatory sense, as it is strange, people who use IRC are generally a certain subset of people.
It is extremely different to saying "all my friends are on facebook" because hundreds of millions of people use facebook in their daily lives for a variety of reasons. IRC is an extremely specific protocol used in a limited way compared to facebook.
Getting to the point, the issue here is the inverse dynamic, statistically across the globe hundreds of millions of people use Facebook to connect with people, but over the globe the numbers of IRC users is probably in the thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands. Therefore someone would normally expect a large portion of friends to use Facebook and a small number to use IRC statistically.
However ALL of your friends use IRC, suggesting that everyone you ever want to talk to is part of a narrow subset of people. This kind of correlation does not generally happen accidentally it's waaaay too off the chart.
My conclusion is that you have a very limited social circle and do not tend to make new friends often...
Again this is an observation, not an attack. Your life is interesting to me.
lol... And then I notice that I have missed a few posts and you live on an island... I think I pretty much nailed that one
