Tag: friendship

Since using Twitter…

  • May 12, 2009 at 2:14 am

  • I keep telling people how my life has altered since using Twitter, even though I’m well aware of how sad that sounds. The thing is it’s not really about Twitter at all, but about people: all Twitter did was help me find them.
    This post will appear particularly self-indulgent: it’s trying to articulate something that I [...]

Buying friends’ time: when should we do it?

  • March 5, 2009 at 6:30 pm

  • For a long time I had no way of knowing who to ask specific technical questions of, and now – thanks to the power of social media – I suddenly know loads of people on whose expertise I can call. The trouble is, when does the relationship become professional and require a financial commitment?
    This morning [...]

Eighteen more things you didn’t know about me

  • February 20, 2009 at 11:31 pm

  • Right, this is the very last time I respond to a meme – chain letter, whatever you call it – on this. I wrote Seven things you may not know about me, and thought that was it. Now Ellie Lovell has gone and tagged me with one that requires twenty five items.
    So here, sort of [...]

How the internet supports friendships

  • February 1, 2009 at 7:41 am

  • The internet can be great for supporting and developing friendships, but it doesn’t create them by itself. It’s simply a tool: we use it to support the things we want to do in our lives, which include offline as well as online activity. Friendships may be part of that.
    Pete Ashton recently wrote about how we [...]

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