Are you my friend?

Peter Rukavina

The snazzy new reboot 9.0 website has some social networking jazz built in. Like Flickr when you add a new contact you can mark them as simply a plain vanilla “contact” or as a “friend.”

Sometimes the distinction is clear, but often it’s not. What exactly is the difference? I ended up marking some people as contacts, others as friends, and used the “have I ever eaten a meal with this person” as a dividing line. But that seemed unnecessarily arbitrary.

Thank goodness they don’t have “good friend” and “mild friend” and “close friend” as further choices.

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Submitted by Olle Jonsson on

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When the website asked me if the contact I was adding was “known” or “friend”, I thought the former alternative meant that I was somehow aware of this person’s being a famour rockstar, letting me broadcast which people were on my “intellectual radar”. I found it weird, and it was a few moments before I got the gist.

Would anyone be interested in a list of the participants I have heard of previously?

Submitted by Thomas on

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Hmm, it was a case of the logic being in the software to begin with - we don’t need different levels of relationships.

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