While social media is a fun residence to meet friends,the threat of abuse seems ever present. Miitomo removes it from the equation entirelySocial media has changed the way that we think about friends. It has elasticated the whole notion of relationships. Imagine whether an old boss you haven’t seen for six months (and barely ever talked to) asks you out for a drink to catch up: you’d scoff at the thought. But whether they wanted to be Facebook friends, a lot of us may feel it would impolite to turn them down. Facebook friends, and Twitter friends,internet friends, friend friends – all of these signal distinct and varying levels of social engagement. The result is, and we acquire a lot more ‘friends’ than we ever did before,and this has become tricky to manage particularly on Twitter.
Perhaps more than any other social media platform, Twitter allows users to build and cultivate social circles with very little delineation between friends, and strangers,casual acquaintances and celebrities. Communities interlock and overlap in a very ad-hoc, seamless way. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com