Deborah Tannen: ...about women's friendships
Nobody Told Me!
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The Benefits of Social Media for Friendship
People that I talk to who had suffered losses found the ability to be in touch with people through these platforms like a caring bridge, just hugely comforting. And imagine if you had to send an email to each of these 50 people that care, you couldn't do it. So 45 of them, you wouldn't even know that they care. Many of the older women I talk to were quite dismissive. One woman said, all that stuff out there that nobody needs to know. But when you're close to somebody at the end of the day, you would tell them what you did,. where you went, the restaurant and what you had for dinner.
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