Well, I would like to do a quant, but am stuck on a plane on the runway and find excel in this situation to be challenging. However, upon loose reflection and counting, I believe that my set of relationships that are both f2f and online are more likely to be with peers and family whereas those which are either completely online or entirely face-to-face (a very small set) are less likely to be ones of equality - loosely defined here. Is this true of others? Barbara Walters - CUNY ----- Original Message ----- From: Barry Wellman [wellman@chass.utoronto.ca] Sent: 10/16/2011 07:06 PM AST To: communication and information technology section asa <citasa@list.citasa.org>; aoir list <air-l@aoir.org> Subject: [CITASA] How many Friends online = one offline? Academic riend asks "how many internet friends = one f2f friend". He's getting grief f2f and naches with his internet relationships. Reliable answers, anyone? Either ethnographic, quant. I told him that it is hard to disentangle becuase most online relationships are also in-person. But like many of us, he is involved in organizing conferences etc online with people he rarely sees. Barry Wellman _______________________________________________________________________ S.D. Clark Professor of Sociology, FRSC NetLab Director Department of Sociology 725 Spadina Avenue, Room 388 University of Toronto Toronto Canada M5S 2J4 twitter:barrywellman http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman fax:+1-416-978-3963 Updating history: http://chass.utoronto.ca/oldnew/cybertimes.php _______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ CITASA mailing list CITASA@list.citasa.org http://list.citasa.org/mailman/listinfo/citasa_list.citasa.org