When do you call online/on social media sites someone a friend?
I am wondering so often which ones are the prerequisites that one person calls another person online a friend.
It is not only here, on SW... Also on Facebook and other social websites that I find again and again people who have HUNDREDS of friends and hundreds of followers.
My personal prerequisite to call someone a friend I only know online is this:
I have to know the person well. VERY well (as far this is online possible). And about a long period (at least one year or longer). And there has to be a regularly contact.
Because how shall I know a person and call a friend when there's never contact?
I just can call someone a friend whom I can trust. But how can I trust a person I rarely don't know and have contact with?
And when I look at others, at the crowds of friends tbey often have online, I am wondering/
- Do they really know all their friends THAT well?
- Do tbey really have regularly contact to all of their friends?
-Or is it just to compensate the loneliness in real life when a user can click online easily a button and he adds quickly 10, 50 or even 200 people as "friends"in that way? This is indeed a number of friends no one can get in "real life. "
A few time this has happened to me on SW, and many, many times it has happened to me on Facebook that people add me as a friend although they don't know me at all, although they've even never have interacted with me.
Or is it just a matter of different cultures? (There are certainly cultures who call someone easier "friend" than in other cultures).
But on the other site: I am not very experienced with all that online stuff. Maybe I am just too old-fashioned... 🧓 😅
Feel free to explain to me your own view of this. 🙂
It is not only here, on SW... Also on Facebook and other social websites that I find again and again people who have HUNDREDS of friends and hundreds of followers.
My personal prerequisite to call someone a friend I only know online is this:
I have to know the person well. VERY well (as far this is online possible). And about a long period (at least one year or longer). And there has to be a regularly contact.
Because how shall I know a person and call a friend when there's never contact?
I just can call someone a friend whom I can trust. But how can I trust a person I rarely don't know and have contact with?
And when I look at others, at the crowds of friends tbey often have online, I am wondering/
- Do they really know all their friends THAT well?
- Do tbey really have regularly contact to all of their friends?
-Or is it just to compensate the loneliness in real life when a user can click online easily a button and he adds quickly 10, 50 or even 200 people as "friends"in that way? This is indeed a number of friends no one can get in "real life. "
A few time this has happened to me on SW, and many, many times it has happened to me on Facebook that people add me as a friend although they don't know me at all, although they've even never have interacted with me.
Or is it just a matter of different cultures? (There are certainly cultures who call someone easier "friend" than in other cultures).
But on the other site: I am not very experienced with all that online stuff. Maybe I am just too old-fashioned... 🧓 😅
Feel free to explain to me your own view of this. 🙂
