Comments on: On online friendship http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/ strategies, tools and processes to empower knowledge workers Fri, 21 Nov 2008 04:45:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 By: Gary Barber http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2883 Gary Barber Sat, 15 Sep 2007 15:49:40 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2883 Its funny but SNS like linkedin do tend to lend themselves to belt notching by some people. Still after all that I can't really get the concept of friending people that I haven't met of at least conversed with at length online. The MySpace collections of friends at any cost is a little surreal to me. Guess I'm just a little out of it, eh! However Twitter on the other hand allows a degree on personalisation, like you have been allowed into a segment of the personal life of the people you are following. This is even more so if the feed is private. This means acceptance implies a degree of a certain level of trust. But like and unlike in real world situations you can have people having misunderstandings leading to people being upset. Often just blocking or stunning the other parties. Socially face to face this would often be resolved. In the virtual world it can spill over into years of segmentation. Its funny but SNS like linkedin do tend to lend themselves to belt notching by some people.

Still after all that I can’t really get the concept of friending people that I haven’t met of at least conversed with at length online. The MySpace collections of friends at any cost is a little surreal to me. Guess I’m just a little out of it, eh!

However Twitter on the other hand allows a degree on personalisation, like you have been allowed into a segment of the personal life of the people you are following. This is even more so if the feed is private. This means acceptance implies a degree of a certain level of trust.

But like and unlike in real world situations you can have people having misunderstandings leading to people being upset. Often just blocking or stunning the other parties. Socially face to face this would often be resolved. In the virtual world it can spill over into years of segmentation.

]]> By: Nina Hale http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2849 Nina Hale Wed, 29 Aug 2007 14:31:42 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2849 Your "office 2.0" terminology is great, in this age where avatars who have never met in RL are getting married on Second Life, all previous notions of relationships are shattering. Just as you can develop strong friendships with colleagues whom you would never have become friends with outside the office, so you can also create strong bonds with people you have never physically met. Office friendships are often based upon mutual respect and collaboration rather than political or recreational commonalities. I joke that I am determined to succeed on LinkedIn where I failed miserably on Friendster, but grow weary of people pursuing connections for the notches on their belts. Your “office 2.0” terminology is great, in this age where avatars who have never met in RL are getting married on Second Life, all previous notions of relationships are shattering. Just as you can develop strong friendships with colleagues whom you would never have become friends with outside the office, so you can also create strong bonds with people you have never physically met. Office friendships are often based upon mutual respect and collaboration rather than political or recreational commonalities. I joke that I am determined to succeed on LinkedIn where I failed miserably on Friendster, but grow weary of people pursuing connections for the notches on their belts.

]]> By: E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Friendships in the Connected Age: High Quantity AND Higher Quality - It’s All about Trust! http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2842 E L S U A ~ A KM Blog by Luis Suarez » Blog Archive » Friendships in the Connected Age: High Quantity AND Higher Quality - It’s All about Trust! Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:19:11 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2842 [...] I am sure that by now a whole bunch of people out there in the blogosphere have been commenting around one fine weblog post put together by Steve Rubel under the title The Web Changes How We Define Friendship. I am not going to link to each and everyone of those different entries. Not to worry. However, I am certainly going to link to a few of the folks that I have been reading for a long while now, as they are all adding some really good insights that I think you would find interesting and worth while a read. So here they are: Stowe Boyd, Anne Truitt Zelenka, Matt Hodgson and Stephen Collins. [...] […] I am sure that by now a whole bunch of people out there in the blogosphere have been commenting around one fine weblog post put together by Steve Rubel under the title The Web Changes How We Define Friendship. I am not going to link to each and everyone of those different entries. Not to worry. However, I am certainly going to link to a few of the folks that I have been reading for a long while now, as they are all adding some really good insights that I think you would find interesting and worth while a read. So here they are: Stowe Boyd, Anne Truitt Zelenka, Matt Hodgson and Stephen Collins. […]

]]> By: elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2841 elsua: The Knowledge Management Blog Tue, 28 Aug 2007 13:17:23 +0000 http://www.acidlabs.org/2007/08/28/on-online-friendship/#comment-2841 <strong>Friendships in the Connected Age: High Quantity AND Higher Quality - It's All about Trust!...</strong> Here is my take on Steve Rubel's recent weblog post "The Web Changes How We Define Friendship", where I am mentioning that it is not all about quantity or quality of friendships, but more than anything else about the effort you put into it through b... Friendships in the Connected Age: High Quantity AND Higher Quality - It’s All about Trust!…

Here is my take on Steve Rubel’s recent weblog post “The Web Changes How We Define Friendship”, where I am mentioning that it is not all about quantity or quality of friendships, but more than anything else about the effort you put into it through b…

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