Do Services Like Twitter Really Increase Your Circle of Friends?
This week I read a really interesting article in The International Herald Tribune about how web apps such as Twitter have increased people’s weak social connections and in some ways brought people closer to their friends.
I really enjoy Twitter and it does help to keep me in touch with my friends particularly those that I don’t see very often. But I don’t know if it makes the connections any stronger. I am able to see what my friends are doing and thinking. However, I always wonder if Twitter is preventing me from going out and engaging with them when I can listen to what they’re doing in the comfort of my own home at my laptop.
Maybe I am just too much of a computer nerd.
J.
