In school we were taught about the levels of friendship.
1. Acquaintance:
Those who you knew the name of, knew some things about, were on "Hi-hello-howareyou" basis but you didn't really know them.
2. Friends:
These are people you actually talk to about different topics. It may be a specific topic but may be anything under the sun. There is a connection between you and you see your friends semi-regularly.
3. Best Friends:
These are people who you spend a LOT of time with and share your lives with. You are included in their lives and they include you in their life.
But, with the advent of Social Networking sites like Friendster and Facebook, the friendship levels have become more like actions.
1. Friending someone means that you have actually sent them a notification that you want to be friends with them. To which this someone would probably say, ok, i will accept or they will IGNORE.
2. Friendlies are a category of friends that you have only a digital association with. I am borrowing loosely from Seth Godin on this category of friend.
3. Defriend is the harshest thing ever. You are already friends, but something went wrong and you have been erased, obliterated, taken out of the friends list. OW! right? Well, only recourse here is to defriend your friend and now you are ex-friends.
What is the point of this? Well, our friendships have changed substantially, I think that the biggest paradox of this is that as we add to our friends list, we have actually made ourselves more isolated.
Face time has become facebook time. And it's not necessarily a good thing.
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