The devaluation of the friend – Express

The friends used to be counted on the fingers of one hand, but now some say they have 2,000 or 3,000 friends. The word has thus recorded a marked devaluation.

Surely the Brazilian singer Roberto Carlos had no idea when she started singing I want to have a million friends that he was risking his wish was fulfilled.
In its official Facebook gathers 5,820,421. Reeds to take them away.

“Friend” refers to one who maintains a relationship with another “personal affection, pure and disinterested, born and is strengthened by the deal.” According to known studies by British anthropologist Robin Dunbar, humans can feed a close relationship with not more than 150 fellows; that is, people whose character knows with whom often talk and you can call in an emergency.

The entry of new individuals in the group usually involves loss of contact with others, generally those whose presence had been diluted

social networks do not seem to have changed that.

the real relationship of a user with other remains in the parameters referring 150 people with whom It is interacting, and which are real friends 3%. The rest of the related users simply “friend” word (devalued).

A few weeks ago he died a man named Jose Angel. He suffered Diogenes syndrome (which is to accumulate all kinds of objects and debris), and was just with their neighbors. The body was found days after his death, and no one claimed for burial.

The surprise was that in Facebook, however, amounted to 3,544 “friends”, none of whom really knew how passed his life.

Both has devalued the word friend, proliferates in the strange phrase means “personal friend”. This expression should be strictly speaking a pleonasm (redundant meaning) because it assumes that all friends are personal while otherwise not tell. And if someone needs to say “personal friend”, that might be because is aware that there are impersonal friends.

This progressive deterioration of the word “friend” can advise someday the dictionary annotates better your definition, in order to maintain the prestige of such a distinguished word. The friend (no depressants adjectives) would then not only who look after a relationship of personal, pure and disinterested affection that is born and is strengthened by the deal, but who also />

And to see how many point to that on Facebook …