Most People Use the Web to Talk to People Nearby | TechWatch | Fast Company
The article is completely wrong about the implications about this graph. No shit, your strongest social ties are generally your local ones: that’s always been true, and the Internet ain’t gonna change that. It’s zero percent surprising that you’d use the Internet to talk to the people you’re emotionally closest to, which are generally the same people you’re physically closest to.
The whole point here is that the Internet enables the long tail — getting updates from people you’d be unlikely to hear from otherwise. The whole point of weak links isn’t that you’re in constant heavy communication with them; it’s that you can find and reactive them more easily now. That’s why they’re weak.
Right?
