photo glennharper night finally meet good friends time kind statement throw parents grandparents loop spends fair amount time social media realm talking finally meet real life conversing sharing twitter facebook year social media demands friendship categories needed write endless posts social media ways affects community friendship conceptually terms day-to-day logistics surrounding interact fascinating here's part wrote topic month post slightly face crowd find open-minded creating bonds friendship people person time sense old-fashioned friendship grasping ways bring home people line pick phone meet halfway feel compelled stamp card send snail mail makes feel we're connected legitimate people follow twitter break long boring stretches afternoon make laugh unexpectedly they're people spark thoughts ideas date latest news culture they're generous advice sympathetic whine people follow twitter handful feel good friends people leaves essential strangers regularly sharing thoughts influenced meeting daisy karen karen night fell degree separation category we're talking real life worlds karen lives york good friends longtime friend carmen carmen fast friends back lived grand rapids michigan worked office writer editor types sister publications karen people twitter connected immediately warmth ease year we've interacting times week chatting politics music food travel likes watch cooks saturday loves cats person night walked east village recognized karen immediately walked gave talk wandering seamlessly topic things happy hour get-together weekly event eventually carmen joined we've trio pals migrated dinner jason joining aspects life table tweet part evening brother bill lading enjoyed giving hard time tweet karen tweeted meet lovely writes feels blind date wrote death village drinks friend scheidel twitter friend daisy today time hanging night feel friend karen's response picked left 