Turn Twitter Friends into Real Friends

I found this fascinating quote today:
We all have them—”social media friends”—people who we talk to online but most likely have never met in person. We connected with them because of a common interest via Twitter, engaged in interesting conversation with them and shared a bond, but we don’t really consider them a true friend.twitip.com, Twitip, Nov 2009
You should read the whole article.

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