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...expansion of Harvard students’ horizons. Though some may criticize this technique as vapid and impersonal, the bottom line is that these two aspects of the introduction may be the keys to its success. It is the generic nature of this greeting that helps build new friendships??relationships that may grow into lifelong companionships...
Quantitative Reasoning 38 (“Game Theory”)—and friendships??have taught me to play tit for tat, with forgiveness built in. I’ve learned that it’s not a good idea to throw dishware unless someone else started it, and every now and then, to take out the trash even when it’s not my turn. I’ve learned that giving or getting flowers can start cycles of cooperation that benefit everybody...
...more and more accustomed to dealing with friends and family via instant message or email, we’re increasingly able to keep in touch without face-to-face contact, or indeed without working particularly hard at relationship-building at all. While before we may have had fewer deeper friendships??those select few enabled by sheer force of will to last over great distances—now we have many weaker ones: people we talk to once in a blue moon when our schedules align (who hasn’t gone through their buddy list...
...real question of TheFacebook’s validity is, do these ‘friendships?? have meaning?” says Ward. It doesn’t take an economist to figure that Facebook fiend Dongbo Yu ‘07 might not consider all of his 578 Facebook “friends” his best buddies. Although Möbius’ study improves on loose social connections by weeding out the random kid from Freshman Week, using TheFacebook to research actual friendships is inherently flawed...
...would get dressed up in skimpy clothes and stand on a doorstep and have a guy look me up and down and see if I was hot enough to get in,” she says. Her frustration grew as her life at final clubs superseded other friendships??like with male friends who couldn’t get through the door...
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