People with more than 1,000 FF (Facebook Friends): Digital or real friendships?

julio 6th, 2011 · No hay Comentarios

These days, many people live with the strange obsession of making friends. In fact, with the Globalization movement, social networks have become an easy way to find different people and why not, add them.

Facebook, created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg is the most relevant social network at this right moment. Besides, once Facebook was born, other highly similar social networks, for instance; Tuenti has appeared on the net.
After seeing this virtual revolution I wonder: are people preferring digital relationships rather than face-to-face ones?

Roger Fransecky in Huffpost living, warms how dangerous can be to get into a virtual second life. In fact, Professor Tom Tyler of New York University, sustains that actually people will prefer digital connections, and what is more, he says that they even are better accepted theese virtual friends than real friendships. However, he doesn’t find it as a negative reward, otherwise, he maintains that it will make changes our life patterns and that’s positive.

In the similar way, the British anthropologist Robin Dunbar claims that the optimum number of social contacts for any one person is 150, and if it’s more social networks will desintegrate.
As we can read, social networks are very useful, nobody can hesitate that they are an advance of our society but we should know how to use them, and specially where is the limit between the reality and virtualty.

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