British psychologist Will Reader presented research today suggesting that social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace do not help users make genuinely close friends. Users may amass hundreds or even thousands of acquaintances, however Reader claims that face to face contact is nearly always necessary to form truly close friendships.
The research, based on a survey […]
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Facebook will increase your network, but not your friends
September 10th, 2007
Tags: facebook · social networking
Facebook announces its MySpace killer
May 25th, 2007
Facebook is the latest web 2.0 poster child to blow open the windows and unlock the doors by harnessing a platform strategy.
In a bid to become the mother-of-all social networking platforms, Facebook is opening up its APIs so that third party developers can add new features and functionality. Users will be able to assemble their […]
Tags: mass collaboration · facebook · open APIs
Closing the book on Facebook
May 3rd, 2007
New Paradigm researcher Paul Artiuch points out that the Ontario government has announced that it is set to ban the popular social networking site Facebook from all government workplace computers. Users will receive the same “access denied” message they would get when trying to access pornographic or gambling sites. Treating Facebook the same way it […]
Tags: government · web 2.0 · facebook