WhenyourFlickrcontactsgrowto 100, "friends" becomesausefultoolto watchsome people a little moreclosely, because your friends appearinthecenterof your homepage.
Goold-Haws finds that younger people are more open to the ideas of collaborating with international contacts and this might well be because they are so used to an open, highly connected world in which online gaming and social media bring people together on a global scale.