'Friends' are not equal to friends

*Wait a minute… this Zephoria person. Do I really know her? I thought I saw her once at SXSWi wearing a weird hat or something.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2009/07/28/would_the_real.html

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"At this point, I would hope that most of us would realize that Friends != friends. In other words, who you connect to on Facebook or MySpace or Twitter is not the same list of people that you would say constitute your closest and dearest. The practice of publicly articulating one's social netwo