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/
Immediate

Anonymous

Intimate

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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