By the way, I agree with Dr. Thropplenoggin. You must be working, at least, at The Guardian. Will be more funny than now (The Guardian, I mean)

Regarding good friends, I absolutely agree – they must be cared for and supported; I personally need to do much more of that offline. And with respect to friends found through social networks, I think the fundamental nature of those relationships is different to friendships established the ‘old fashioned’ way until physical connections are made back in the ‘real’ world – but I’m no less open to making those connections, and have made some very exciting connections that way.

Fortunately, Social Networks give voice to the most disadvantaged and amplify messages that the most powerful would prevent to spread. And give the chance, for people like me, to reply your thoughts expressed in this blog.

And concerning friends, I do not think this is as different as in real life. Good friends have to be cared for and supported. Give without expecting anything in return and receive without asking. You must spend time with friends to maintain the friendship. The only difference is that social networked friends can not be touched (and even sometimes you can not see them), but it’s a way to avoid discrimination against people by their appearance or by their smell (option which is often lacking in the physical world).

In a world full of iTech shops, abundance of food and luxuries of all sorts, news about human equality and survival, appear to be misplaced. Perhaps that is why one of the first reactions to the loss of purchasing power by the crisis, has been cutting aid funds (which have never been too big).

Calçots with romesco sauce? Lovely