We use a variety of social tools everyday – the phone, Facebook, email and chat for example. Each of these tools fosters different degrees of intimacy.
Interactive | Present/ | Anonymous | Intimate | |
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Face-to-face meeting | ||||
Phone or Skype call | ||||
SMS/text, MMS messaging | ||||
Second Life and online multiplayer games | ||||
Text chat | ||||
Twitter, Flickr etc | ||||
Facebook, Google+ etc | ||||
Anonymous forum/gossip sites |
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