I loved this story on Guardian Unlimited. I’ve talked about herd behaviour before on this blog, and this is yet another example of a similar thing. It seems that the richness of a relationship is no longer important, simply the volume of friends we have. Ironically, you could have 500 ‘friends’ online and yet be incredibly lonely because you end up not knowing a single one of them really well. And it’s a similar situation in virtual worlds, you end up knowing someone’s online persona, without a single clue as to who they are or what they’re really like. Does that make them your friend?
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