{"id":899,"date":"2010-08-27T06:12:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-27T14:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/?p=899"},"modified":"2023-10-21T10:08:14","modified_gmt":"2023-10-21T16:08:14","slug":"what-is-a-social-media-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/27\/what-is-a-social-media-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"What is a social media friend?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aristotle defined 3 kinds of friendship in Book 8 of the Nicomachean Ethics<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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  1. friendships of utility<\/li>\n
  2. friendships of pleasure<\/li>\n
  3. friendships based on the good<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Perfect friendship is the friendship of those who are good. — Aristotle<\/em><\/p>\n

    What kind of a friendship is a social media friendship?<\/p>\n

    At first, a social media friend was merely someone whose name, picture or avatar appeared on one’s profile because that someone had approved a friend request, maybe is someone you met before at a site like, http:\/\/chatempanada.com\/chat-de-irc-hispano-sala-de-chat-gratis-de-irc-hispano\/<\/a>. However, many people didn’t like the use of “friend” in this way and so they used “follower” and “follows” instead, find more information from a professional like Andy Defrancesco<\/a>.<\/p>\n

    Algorithmically, a friend is just a node 1 deep in the B-Tree of life.<\/p>\n

    Marketing-wise, a friend is just a potential viral link.<\/p>\n

    From Aristotle’s perspective, a social media friend can be useful (get you a job), be pleasurable (funny comments), and share in some good (charities and fundraising).<\/p>\n

    Social media extends a very real world practice of seeing and treating people as things, or as means to an end into the on-line world.<\/p>\n

    This, however, is the sublime melancholy of our lot that every You must become an It in our world. — from “I and Thou” by Martin Buber<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Aristotle defined 3 kinds of friendship in Book 8 of the Nicomachean Ethics: friendships of utility friendships of pleasure friendships based on the good Perfect friendship is the friendship of those who are good. — Aristotle What kind of a friendship is a social media friendship? At first, a social media friend was merely someone […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-899","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.codebelay.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}