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Stephen Downes

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The headline is intended to read one way, but I read it the other way - I am actually surprised that the number is so low. Facebook, after all, supports friendships across distances and across distributed communities of interest, so I would expect them to be friends with a greater number of people they have never met. But the numbers show that the online world is quite clearly rooted - to the tune of 75 percent - in the physical world. The report (204 pages PDF) was authored by Ofcom and released yesterday.

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