Comments on: Degrees of friendship: Facebook, email, texting, IM, phone...

The world is multi-channel, with social networking serving as adjunct communication modes to more traditional means.

[JoshGaz]

True observations

I do agree with your article 100%. Adults and kids alike have their preferred way of communicating with great friends or people they say hi to every so often. A lot of kids I have worked with say that they feel a certain level of peer pressure to have a profile up on one of the sites, My Space or Facebook. (I would have to warn that their are complete scam and spam sites like perfspot, which you want to stay away from at all costs) Everyone does use the internet to communicate in some fashion, but until cell phones decide to not offer texting, it will remain a text world

[aztec92154]

Simple face to face conversations R another degree

I love this article! I completely agree with you, but dont you agree that after "phone" is face to face communication? If someone is sick, you can use Facebook, email, texting, IM, phone, but ultimately the most intimate of all is a simple face to face conversation.

Thanks for writing a great article!

[innocuous]

From their perspective

I have to say, as a teenager, I agree.

It's more a question of how you WON'T communicate with your friends. Some people just aren't close enough for phone, but you don't mind IM conversations. Others you will add on facebook just to avoid the awkward situation of seeing someone you rejected in the school hallways.

But that doesn't make our friendships any less personal. There are still long conversations until 2 am, it's just that we have more mediums in which to do that, and can more easily keep up a larger amount of long distance friendships.