article BBC news: Are my online friends for real?

By Rory Cellan-Jones, Technology Correspondent, BBC News

As Facebook continues its explosive growth here's one question troubling me. Are my friends for real?

This week I received this intriguing message from a man who moves in London's new media circles. He wrote: "I met somebody the other day who told me that online networking was so important, and he didn't have the time, he was paying somebody to be him online. To blog, network, post etc . £1,000 a month too. "Apparently it's a new occupation which he reckons already numbers hundreds of people, paid to be other people!" ...

I started worrying about some of my Facebook "friends". Were they who they said they were? ...

to article: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6260210.stm

This kind of remind me a story about the future of learning with all the new technologies. (1) In the future the students will not need to go to school, but just install some devices that record the course for them. (2) the same for the professors that will not need to go to school, and just have a tape recorder, that will deliver their courses for them to classrooms (in which obviously, only the student's tape recorders will be present).

thierry

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