There is another problem/twist/complication with FB which I find very weird in the way the girls are navigating their way through life. To our generation the idea that one dumps friends is a given. I had local pals at primary school who faded away when I went to secondary school. In turn, when I went into the 6th form, my friendship groups altered and I could barely manage to keep in touch with those people who were still on the same school campus. And so on to University and from one job to the next. Each time you changed your environment 90+% of the contacts disappeared.
I'm now still in touch with one school person (Andrew Herd and there is other logic there) and a raft of uni friends. From my jobs, I exchange Christmas cards with 2 people from my 4 jobs before setting up the business. Everyone else is current.
But the girls? Because FB keeps friendships alive they end up with 600 friends in their lists and a lingering collection of friendship patterns. Does that impede their capacity to make new friends and prevent them 'moving on'? It doesn't seem to because they seem to make new rafts of friends in each new scenario, but for some I guess it won't help the socially unconfident form new friendships because there is a comfort blanket of old friends on FB.
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Date: 2012-04-01 07:48 am (UTC)I'm now still in touch with one school person (Andrew Herd and there is other logic there) and a raft of uni friends. From my jobs, I exchange Christmas cards with 2 people from my 4 jobs before setting up the business. Everyone else is current.
But the girls? Because FB keeps friendships alive they end up with 600 friends in their lists and a lingering collection of friendship patterns. Does that impede their capacity to make new friends and prevent them 'moving on'? It doesn't seem to because they seem to make new rafts of friends in each new scenario, but for some I guess it won't help the socially unconfident form new friendships because there is a comfort blanket of old friends on FB.