I don’t automatically friend back, I try to meet anyone it physically possible for me to do so when I can and I do look for some for of existing personal or shared interest relationship before I will reciprocate a connection.

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.

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…