Facebook and Friend Matrix: a Lovestory

A friend of mine has just had to delete her Facebook FriendMatrix. For those of you who don't know, this is a collage of the friends you have, with larger pictures of those friends who are most in contact.  This has caused some people to be offended, when seeing the small size of their picture in the matrix of a dear friend.

Size matters.

And that's the trouble with the square matrix.  All it responds to is the number of times people have been in contact, or hit 'like'.  It doesn't seem to care about the actual quality of the relationship that is shared.  The moral? That one cannot quantify quality. The second moral? Isn't it interesting that some people think we should be able to quantify friendship.