Comments on: The Facebook Cut Direct http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2008/12/09/the-facebook-cut-direct/ Fri, 23 Sep 2011 12:06:15 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Laurie http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2008/12/09/the-facebook-cut-direct/comment-page-1/#comment-97803 Laurie Thu, 15 Oct 2009 15:57:00 +0000 http://www.ashleyrichards.com/2008/12/09/the-facebook-cut-direct/#comment-97803 I hear you. What do you do when you get a brother or nephew of an in-law (ie my uncle's wife's brother? nephew?) that you've never ever even met, and your uncle and his wife has been married for 20 years or something? But I digress. It seems to me that Facebook also has another phenomena going - it's "collecting" friends. You look at your own number of friends, and you see that someone has twice or thrice as many friends, you start to wonder if you're lacking in friends so you accept more friends even if you're not even sure who they are. I hear you. What do you do when you get a brother or nephew of an in-law (ie my uncle’s wife’s brother? nephew?) that you’ve never ever even met, and your uncle and his wife has been married for 20 years or something? But I digress.

It seems to me that Facebook also has another phenomena going – it’s “collecting” friends. You look at your own number of friends, and you see that someone has twice or thrice as many friends, you start to wonder if you’re lacking in friends so you accept more friends even if you’re not even sure who they are.

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