I read over the weekend a piece in The Observer (on page 3) to do with Facebook. It talked about the ‘friendliest’ person on Facebook in the UK. I was slightly taken aback by the term that has been coined to refer to Facebook users who have 1000′s of friends: ‘Facebook Whales’.
People with large numbers of friends on Facebook are seen as lonely, sad individuals. Compare that to MySpace and the perception that friends = popularity…It struck me how different these 2 Social Networks are, made all the more distant by this illustration:
