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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by andrewshadura on Sunday March 25, 2018 @04:18PM (#16674334)
Only that the concept of a friend and a friend request existed before Facebook.
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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by Zhyl on Monday March 26, 2018 @06:24AM (#16677872)
Sure, but I'd argue the Facebook friend request is different to, say, the MSN friend request. One felt like adding someone to an address book, the other felt like officially adding someone to your circle of friends.

Probably subjective, but therein lies the insight into why Facebook is so culturally significant.

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Re:Thoughts on Embracing the Social Internet Over Social Media by andrewshadura on Friday March 30, 2018 @03:32AM (#16714396)
Well, I don't see how it's very much different from, say, LiveJournal friend request (except that it doesn't have to be mutually accepted) or a similar feature of MySpace (I think they had it too) or even last.fm.
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