Being Helpful

A long time ago, there was a pretty famous book entitled All I Really Need To Know I Learned In Kindergarten. It was cute and seemed quaint, but it is so true. To be happy and reasonably successful as a grown-up, you can get quite a long way by just starting with be...

What’s Your Friendship Worth?

There’s a really interesting article in this past week’s Business Week about the value of friendships on Facebook and Twitter in a very economic sense.  Companies are looking at everything from whether your friends are more likely to click on ads served to...

The Meaning of Friendship

We toss around the word friendship on the internet all the time.  Are the people we talk about our friends, or our acquaintences?  Are they people we would be close friends with if we lived in more geographically similar locations, or are they the...