"Meet 5,000 New Best Pal's"

In the essay "Meet My 5,000 New Best Pal's"  by Janet Kornblum, she explains how having online network friends is different then having face-to-face friendship. I would have to agree with her, just because you are friends with someone on facebook or myspace doesn't really mean you are friends with them. I know some of my friends have a little over 1,00 friends on facebook and they only really know about half of them if even that. Just because you are friends with people on facebook or myspace does not necessary mean you are friends with those people. I know at times there are many people who will ask to be my friend on facebook because we both go to West Chester University but sometimes I don't even know them so I either decline or accept them. Some of my friends just like to see how many friends they can have on facebook because it makes them feel more popular if they have a lot. Kornblum even talks about how people try to collect friends to see how many people they can put on their network due to popularity reasons. Therefore I agree with this essay that there is a distinct line between friendships and friending.  I also found some of this essay to be funny especially when it talks about the girl named Valerie and her myspace friends. I think that is dumb how she wont be peoples friends if they don't have a certain amount of friends but then she will be friends with someone else she might not know because they are cute or something. Although at times this essay was also sad because it talks about how some teens look for friends online because they don't have any friends. It was interesting how the author explains how their are rules that were made by many using myspace because if they are rules i never followed them. I refuse to have myspace because I feel it is unsafe and dumb I will just stick to facebook.