tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708433796378092981.post21977689817452014..comments2023-07-21T05:58:56.240-04:00Comments on Strate Up Social Media: Why Can't We Be Friends?Lance Stratehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13033954765699126246noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708433796378092981.post-66415548663784773692010-03-02T18:42:38.695-05:002010-03-02T18:42:38.695-05:00What's wrong with making new friends? Or put ...What's wrong with making new friends? Or put another way, networking? It's a good point, though, some people take the term more to heart than others, and won't connect because it doesn't fit their meaning of "friend" while others don't take the term as literally. If we understand it as a metaphor for being linked, fine, but Neil Postman would also consider it an example of the "demeaning of meaning," and argue that we would avoid confusion if we used a different term.Lance Stratehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13033954765699126246noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708433796378092981.post-67671332770786309932010-03-02T17:51:46.679-05:002010-03-02T17:51:46.679-05:00I agree, the video was a great touch haha.
In the...I agree, the video was a great touch haha.<br /><br />In the redefinition of the term "friend," I'd like to add that a "friend" is sometimes a complete and total stranger. I'd like to hope that people have enough sense to reject such requests. Sadly, that is not the case with everyone.Sheenahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11265258861780578205noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708433796378092981.post-68845467742103998072010-03-02T15:09:39.588-05:002010-03-02T15:09:39.588-05:00Personally, on Myspace or Facebook I am only frien...Personally, on Myspace or Facebook I am only friends with people I have met, which may be only once or twice. Now I may not be friends with these people in the traditional sense of the word, but I have no problem being an on-line friend with them. For the most part, I only comment to my friends who I know and hang out with on a regular basis.<br /> <br />On an aside, I like the video.Dennis DeVivohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04483178693320138690noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5708433796378092981.post-5384727738822383182010-02-28T13:15:02.983-05:002010-02-28T13:15:02.983-05:00"Friends" online, as you point out, are ..."Friends" online, as you point out, are certainly on a different level than those who we are friends with in real life. Becoming acquainted with people we normally never would have as a result of the Internet, brings up many questions, however. Does it show that the web has allowed for humans to expand and reach out to people in incredible, unthinkable ways? Or does it prove that the web has secluded individuals and has turned many of them into solitary loners who can only confide and have faith in those whom they've never actually seen in person?Kimberly Engelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11992130625260255787noreply@blogger.com