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>If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with? If my best friend died I would be notified immediately by at

>If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with? If my best friend died I would be notified immediately by at least three people. If I weren't (I would be) I would know something was wrong as soon as he stopped responding to my text messages/calls. That's because we're actual friends and are actually involved in each other's lives. His wife knows me, his mother and father know me, his children know me. The people you're describing are not in any way best friends.

macintux 9y ago
I didn't say everyone you were friends with are "best" friends. Nor am I trying to redefine friendship as "Facebook friends." And I wish people would read what I wrote, not what they think about Facebook.
- EpicEng 9y ago
  >I didn't say everyone you were friends with are "best" friends. Where did I imply that? I literally responded to: >If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with? >Nor am I trying to redefine friendship as "Facebook friends." And I wish people would read what I wrote, not what they think about Facebook. Yeah, didn't say that either. I wish people would read what I wrote too. It's just absolutely 99% ridiculous to believe that _facebook_ would be the way you'd likely be notified that your "best friend" (your words) died. A true friend, let alone a _best_ friend, is someone whose life you're involved in at a deeper level than FB. I left 1% for situations like elderly people who have been friends for decades and live half a world away from each other.
  - macintux 9y ago
    Look at the question you originally quoted: > If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with? How did you make the leap to: > It's just absolutely 99% ridiculous to believe that _facebook_ would be the way you'd likely be notified that your "best friend" (your words) died. I didn't say: "I want to find out my best friend died via Facebook." My question was meant to imply: "I don't know how to find everyone my best friend considers his friends, but his Facebook friends list is an improper superset of that list"

macintux 9y ago

I didn't say everyone you were friends with are "best" friends. Nor am I trying to redefine friendship as "Facebook friends." And I wish people would read what I wrote, not what they think about Facebook.

EpicEng 9y ago
>I didn't say everyone you were friends with are "best" friends. Where did I imply that? I literally responded to: >If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with? >Nor am I trying to redefine friendship as "Facebook friends." And I wish people would read what I wrote, not what they think about Facebook. Yeah, didn't say that either. I wish people would read what I wrote too. It's just absolutely 99% ridiculous to believe that _facebook_ would be the way you'd likely be notified that your "best friend" (your words) died. A true friend, let alone a _best_ friend, is someone whose life you're involved in at a deeper level than FB. I left 1% for situations like elderly people who have been friends for decades and live half a world away from each other.
- macintux 9y ago
  Look at the question you originally quoted: > If your best friend died, would you really know how to contact everyone he/she was friends with? How did you make the leap to: > It's just absolutely 99% ridiculous to believe that _facebook_ would be the way you'd likely be notified that your "best friend" (your words) died. I didn't say: "I want to find out my best friend died via Facebook." My question was meant to imply: "I don't know how to find everyone my best friend considers his friends, but his Facebook friends list is an improper superset of that list"