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Friend Poaching: How Do I Handle Feeling Left Out?
Friend poaching occurs when someone introduces two friends and they form a relationship that excludes you. Ouch!
Buried treasure: Finding Long Lost Friends
Here are some tips for finding a long lost friends—on Long Lost Friends Day or any day of the year!
Friend Poaching or Social Networking: What’s the Difference?
Friend poaching is complicated. The distinctions between friend poaching and social networking can even be murkier.
The evolution of friendship in a digital age
Some people worry that digital technology is eroding the face of friendship as we now know it—that time spent in virtual relationships detracts from real ones. A new report provides evidence to the contrary. Among Americans: 48 percent of those interviewed said that social networking sites help them build new relationships 44 percent said that […]
Friendship and self-disclosure: The times they are a-changing
Female college students are twice as likely as their male peers to use social networking sites like Facebook (their favorite) and MySpace (ranked second), according to a market research survey from Anderson Analytics. The findings, reported in Advertising Age this week, examined the likes, dislikes, and media preferences of college students between the ages of […]
Friends in the Digital Playground
There is a lot to learn about friendships from what has been called the "largest-ever global survey" of how kids interact with digital technology. MTV and Nickelodeon, in association with Microsoft Digital Advertising Solutions, used both quantitative and qualitative methodologies to talk to 18,000 “tech-embracing” kids (ages 8-14) and young people (14-24) in 16 countries. […]
On the Blogosphere: Second Life Friendships
Canadian Jenny Bullough calls her blog The Newbie: The adventures of a wide-eyed innocent in the digital world. Since I’m a bit of a newbie to the blogosphere myself, I was interested to read Jenny’s take on Redefining Friendship. She writes: “I’m stoked to be going shopping in Second Life twice in the next few […]
Friendship: Black, white and shades of gray
When it comes to social networking sites, like Facebook or MySpace, things are largely black or white, says blogger Nancy Baym. On her blog, Online fandom, Baym remarks: “One of the great shortcomings of social network sites as they currently exist is that almost all of them offer you only one kind of friend. It’s […]
Social networking: His and Hers
A report of the Pew Internet & American Life Project looked at online friendships among American youth between the ages of 12 and 17. One of many interesting findings: There were gender differences in the ways the sites were used. Girls used them to reinforce existing friendships; boys used them to flirt and make new […]
Online Friendships: As Close As A Keystroke
Carole* (who prefers to use a pseudonym) is a 40-something career woman who works in the area of information technology talks about online friendships.
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