'Friend' inflation: non-friend friends

'Friend' inflation: Facebook popularity categories may boost egos but devalue the term

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How did we arrive at this strange state of non-friend friends? Here's how.

A student's popularity has never been a mystery on campus. You see that everyone greets the campus tour guide while the wallflower silently slips by. You know the starting quarterback has a larger social circle than the treasurer of the biology club.

Comment: More terms:

1. The Top Friend application.
   
2. Popularity ranking.
   
3. "I Have An Entourage."
   
4. BFF = "Best Friends Forever"
   

Observation: People need real community, and it will not be found on the Internet, in a bar, or anywhere outside of a relationship with Christ. That relationship enables genuine community with others of God's family!