http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/19-synthetic-worlds Sat, 18 Jul 2009 13:13:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/19-synthetic-worlds/comment-page-1#comment-39 Julitschka Sun, 04 Nov 2007 21:36:11 +0000 http://www.receiver.vodafone.com/19-synthetic-worlds#comment-39 reading about bonds of friendship in second life made me think of a post by alek krotoski (social sim) about the qualities of online friendship: http://socialsim.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/you-cant-make-friends-online/ (...)There’s quite a lot of research on the transitivity of online relationships, which doesn’t necessarily suggest that it’s a bad thing. In fact, the loose connections which one develops with loads of people means that the connections one maintains within one’s online community develop a deeper sense of trust and closeness, and a greater sense of generalised trust, both of which are important for public participation and online and offline community engagement.(...) reading about bonds of friendship in second life made me think of a post by alek krotoski (social sim) about the qualities of online friendship:
http://socialsim.wordpress.com/2007/09/11/you-cant-make-friends-online/
(…)There’s quite a lot of research on the transitivity of online relationships, which doesn’t necessarily suggest that it’s a bad thing. In fact, the loose connections which one develops with loads of people means that the connections one maintains within one’s online community develop a deeper sense of trust and closeness, and a greater sense of generalised trust, both of which are important for public participation and online and offline community engagement.(…)

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