*Wait a minute... this zephoria person on the net. Do I know her? Have I met 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 network can be quite fraught because there are social costs to the process of public articulation.
"Issues of reciprocity emerge and people find themselves doing a lot of face-work to navigate the sticky nature of having to account for their social relations in a publicly accountable way. Thus, the list of who you might list as a Friend is often a mix of friends, acquaintances, family members, people from your past, fans, professional colleagues, familiar strangers, and people you don't particularly like but don't want to offend. Oh and the occasional celebrity you think is interesting. (((http://www.gauravonomics.com/blog/caste-based-communities-on-orkut-mirror-indias-splintered-society/
