Are you my friend? Should I friend you? Or you me? I have a very large backlog of inquiries on Facebook, MySpace, LinkedIn and all the rest.
Deciding friendability has become a new and necessary social skill. Here is a hierarchy that works for me:
Friend -- Most of the people that Facebook calls "friends" I call Acquaintances. Actual Friend -- Someone whom I've had a meal with, or has visited my home. Real Friend -- Someone who would drive me to the airport at 6 am. True Friend -- Someone who would get me out of jail.
We all have lots of friends, a few real friends and -- if we are lucky -- one or two true friends.
I am delighted to know so many acquaintances. But I only call friends Actual Friends, Real Friends, and True Friends.
Some folks think this approach is too serious and not in the spirit of the social game of Web 2.0. But I think in the long run, making distinctions in friendability will make our social webs stronger.
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- I am a person who is positive about every aspect of life. I like country’s peace, , I like delicious food and comfortable shoes; I like good books and romantic movies. I like the land and the nature, I like people. And, I like to laugh. I always wanted to be a great writer, like Victor Hugo who wrote "Les Miserable", or like Roman Roland who wrote "John Christopher". . I also wanted to be a great psychologist, like William James or Sigmund Freud, who could read people’s mind. Of course, I am nowhere close to these people, yet. I am just someone who does some teaching, some research, and some writing. But my dream is still alive.
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the Value that is found in friendships is often the result of a friend demonstrating the following on a consistent basis, the tendency to desire what is best for the other, sympathy and empathy, honesty, perhaps in situations where it may be difficult for others to speak the truth, especially in terms of pointing out the perceived faults of one's counterpart mutual understanding,In a comparison of personal relationships, friendship is considered to be closer than association, although there is a range of degrees of intimacy in both friendships and associations.last [i want to ask a question what is the necessary steps of true friendship,i read the whole blog that u create but i think these steps follow only that friend who live in ur locality, but there are also such friends who are invisible
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