So, Who Are Your Real Friends?

I have long suspected that at social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook, the more people you are friends with, the better you look to everyone else. So collecting friends becomes a mad romp as everyone raids everyone else’s friends so that there emerges a temporary ‘winner’.

So, who are your real friends?

In this article (The Telegraph, UK), says it’s about five. The article says researchers at Sheffield Hallam University and the University of Liverpool have been conducting surveys of social networking denizens. They report that although such people claim 150 or 200 online friends (depending on the survey), they say they but have five core friends.

Does it matter? Is facebook a place to have many connected people, but if you wanted a shoulder to lean on, would it be different?

What’s going on here?

I am not one to blog politics, but this page appeared and got me thinking.
I have read articles on countries that sanitze the web, and what would happen to me if I had to live, work or visit these countries. Well, visiting not so much, as I could do without when travelling (except for email), but one takes for granted what we have where those go without, because of governments that wish to interfere.

WordPress is on the list.