Weak Ties

Old-Fashioned Matchmaking Meets Facebook

Sasha Cagen | Posted 09.11.2011

Read More: Matchmaking, Quirkyalone, Online Dating, Weak Ties, Dating, Facebook, match.com, Media News
Sasha Cagen

Jenny doesn't know any matches for us personally, but maybe her friends' friends do. If she posts on enough Facebook walls, will she find us all our soulmates?

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Am I Better Than Facebook?

Claire Gordon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Digital Immigrants, Social Networking, Mark Zuckerberg, Weak Ties, Facebook, Zadie Smith, New York Review of Books, Suburbia, Software, Revolutions, Facebook Friends, Minimalism, Eliminating Desire, Digital Natives, Cocktail Party, Myspace, Race, Dana Boyd, Social Inequality, Class, Technology News
Claire Gordon

Facebook me is better than actual me. Smarter, wittier, funner, prettier. But does Facebook, as a platform, reduce the richness of my personhood? Absolutely.

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The Facebook Effect: How Social Media are Transforming Our Capacity to Achieve

Rick Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Careers, Friendship, Jobs, Facebook and Employment, Facebook, Social Networking, Networking, Weak Ties, Business News
Rick Smith

For the first time in human history, technology enabled social media allow us to exponentially expand our network of weak ties, potentially into the thousands over a lifetime.

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