It's not your Daddy's world. We live in the Social Media age. And with the Social Media age, one can make and maintain friendships using much less time and effort than your Daddy did in his world. In "Social Media: Price, Supply, and Demand in Digital Communities," authors Shawn Blau, Ph.D. and Greg Giaquinto, M.P.A., discuss the price, supply, and demand of making and maintaining friends the traditional way - for example, meeting people at a bar and having face to face conversations with those people - versus making and maintaining friends in the Social Media age via joining Social Media platforms, like Facebook, and communicating with newly made friends by messaging one another.A must read, this analysis makes people contemplate the differences, pros, and cons of making and sustaining relationships in the Social Media age versus the traditional way of creating and sustaining friendships.
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