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Why Doesn’t Aristotle Accept My Facebook Friendship Request?

Would Aristotle’s Facebook contacts really be his friends? asks Alan Rolle.

I am looking through the 128 contacts I have in my Facebook account. Each has a particular relation to me somehow or other. Some I hold dear to my heart, and others I haven’t spoken to for more than two hours at a party months ago. I have not spoken with some of them for over a decade. According to Facebook, they are all ‘friends’.

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