http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html en-gb 30 Wed 23 Dec 2009 21:05:04 GMT+1 A feed of user comments from the page found at http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=18#comment13 Are all the comments on here by grammer Nazis. It is a blog post you should be more interested in the content than the grammer. As for the content of the blog. Surprise, surprise facebook is still growing and people that network earn more over their career.George Thu 08 Oct 2009 16:56:24 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=17#comment12 dolomite3g: But you decided to waste your time telling everybody you weren't going to waste your time reading the article? Right.... Tue 14 Apr 2009 15:05:11 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=15#comment11 By the way, after spotting that mistake, I did not bother reading the rest of the article.If the writer does not feel the need to spend time to verify the content of her article, then why should I waste my time reading it if I cannot get past the first few lines without an obvious mistake. Tue 14 Apr 2009 11:52:42 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=14#comment10 Does anyone else actually not see the real mistake."Well, we all know that what we need is at least one really really good friend. But in the world of social networking, the average is 120. That's according stats from Facebook ...""That's according stats from Facebook"I think the writer herself spends too much time on facebook where no one checks their spelling and grammar. Should read:"That's according to stats from Facebook" Tue 14 Apr 2009 11:49:31 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=12#comment9 Facebook is becoming incredibly powerful, I honestly think that it will replace email eventually.Mark Zuckerberg is either a very clever guy or a really good one who loves his creation, I hope the second.I think the BBC bloggers should return to facebook and give it a serious once over. It is a huge difference from the app infested nightmare of a year ago. Afterabout 2 weeks of marking the nasty apps as spam I hardly get any rubbish like that.Just the content I want. Sat 11 Apr 2009 10:16:46 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=11#comment8 The difference between “as” and “at” was spotted, but no one noticed the missing word in the third sentence? (“That's according [to] stats”) I guess a lot of us are so used to not seeing the “t”s, we do not even notice when they are not there. #8 Avoiding face-book, may not prevent your boss from snooping. Of course putting bad things about your job, on any internet blog, might not be a good idea, but one should assume someone has access to everything typed at a workplace computer. Sat 11 Apr 2009 05:08:31 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=10#comment7 #4: Yes the human brain ignores certain words, or it at least processes them differently. You can ask someone to count the number of Ts in a sentence for example, and many will ignore words like 'at', 'it'. Back on topic - On the point about having your boss as a friend on Facebook - bit of a risk isn't it? Only a few weeks ago a girl was sacked for saying her job was boring. Instead of trying to find out why or offer her a more stimulating role, or even just accepting that some jobs are boring(!), her boss sacked her! Thu 09 Apr 2009 18:23:11 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=8#comment6 the mistake is "as" instead of "at", in reply to tonysibley. Thu 09 Apr 2009 10:58:54 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=7#comment5 @4 You'd be the FIST to admit it. :-) Thu 09 Apr 2009 10:45:12 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=5#comment4 There seems to be a problem in the URL for the IBM and MIT study. It's coming up as invalid.It should be: http://smallblue.research.ibm.com/publications/Utah-ValueOfSocialNetworks.pdf Thu 09 Apr 2009 10:37:59 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=4#comment3 Am I alone in not spotting this mistake in the first post?!The two lines of text look the same. Thu 09 Apr 2009 10:17:56 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=2#comment2 I'm going to claim it as irony. Although I don't really believe it myself. Thu 09 Apr 2009 09:53:44 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=1#comment1 "...a mistake in the fist sentence..." Another victim of the law stating that all posts pointing out spelling mistakes will contain at least one spelling mistake. (Apart from this one: victory is mine!) Thu 09 Apr 2009 09:21:31 GMT+1 http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/technology/2009/04/how_many_friends_do_you_need.html?page=0#comment0 There is a mistake in the fist sentence."Well, we all know that what we need is as least one really really good friend."It should be:"Well, we all know that what we need is at least one really really good friend." Thu 09 Apr 2009 09:02:22 GMT+1