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Dumped by Web 2.0?
By RickMeasham | October 9, 2007
Dear Agony Aunt,
I logged onto Facebook this morning and my girlfriend’s status has changed from ‘Boyfriend’ to ‘Single’, so I checked my Jaiku followers and she’s not following my updates any more.
OK, so I just made that up, but if web2.0 is how we’re all communicating now (broadcasting rather than narrowcasting) I think it’s probably happened at least once.
In a web2.0 world, we all have hundreds of ‘friends’ who ‘follow’ our every move but from whom we could not borrow a cup of sugar. The concept of friendship has been cheapened as we endevour to have more friends than everyone else. We befriend everyone we come across in the hope they reciprocate and befriend us. It’s all rather slutty really. Do we really need all these hundreds of ephemeral friendships? Or are we better off with just a few people we truly care about?
Topics: Issues, Web 2.0 | 1 Comment »
October 10th, 2007 at 5:00 pm
I wonder if it’s related to our rampant acquisitiveness. It’s not enough to have one car, gotta have two. Why have two credit cards when you can have four? If you have a single TV in the lounge room, why not have one for each of the three bedrooms as well? Less may be more, but more is better. And so it is with all social networking online. Apparently.