> Social vs. parasocial is simply a matter of the scale of any one node. Not really. But parasocial comes more natural with scale. The main difference is the n

> Social vs. parasocial is simply a matter of the scale of any one node. Not really. But parasocial comes more natural with scale. The main difference is the nature of relationship and communication. You can have a parasocial relationship even in a 1:1, and a social realtionship in a 1:billion. The defining point is the type of power a relationship has. In parasocial it's one-sided, parasitic. While social is multisides, symbiotic. Though of course there is nor purely social or parasocial relationship in any group, there are some which are more like one or the other. > A person, or a group, with more than a few hundred followers, can at best devote only a few minutes or seconds to each. Social does not mean you must share personal connections with each individual. The crowd can also interact anonymous and indirect. The crowd can be social or parasocial, depending for whom they act and how much power it's head has.