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&lt;TD class="" id=HB_Focus_Element&gt;If you have a few things in common, I would say yes.&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;
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&lt;DIV id=hotbar_promo&gt;&lt;/DIV&gt;&lt;/TD&gt;&lt;/TR&gt;&lt;/TABLE&gt;</description></item><item><title>Are Online Friends Real?</title><link>http://community.advanceweb.com/forums/thread/28122.aspx</link><pubDate>Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:58:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">06d5312c-37b9-406e-be84-460d8d21f4fc:28122</guid><dc:creator>Frank Irving</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://community.advanceweb.com/forums/thread/28122.aspx</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://community.advanceweb.com/forums/commentrss.aspx?SectionID=48&amp;PostID=28122</wfw:commentRss><description>&lt;P&gt;My desk calendar, supplied by storage vendor EMC, carries the theme of information throughout the year via daily notes and quotes. Today's entry, sourced from a September 2007 &lt;EM&gt;Guardian&lt;/EM&gt; article, reads as follows:&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;"Although the numbers of friends people have on [social networking] sites can be massive, the actual number of close friends is approximately the same in the face-to-face real world," says psychologist Will Reader from Sheffield Hallam University.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;His survey of 200 users of social networking sites found that people tend to have around five close friends.&lt;/P&gt;
&lt;P&gt;Some 90 percent of the online friends rated as "close" have been met face-to-face, with the remaining 10 percent likely to be friends of close friends, perceived as having many of the mutual friend's attributes and, therefore "low risk."&lt;/P&gt;
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