noun
Whatever Friends Forever - a person who you only encountered briefly, but stays in your online life forever.
Before social networks there were episodic characters in our lives - people we only met once or twice and we haven’t heard from since. Nowadays whoever we once add to our social media circle we’ll stay on our news feed forever and we’ll be regularly updated on their life events. They may even become dominant people in our online life. As the years pass the number of online followers is exponentially growing. While we can only maintain contact with about 150 people, the number of friends of the average user is high above it and is growing as the social media is settling in our lives..Some people check and clean their friends lists occasionally. It is an act similar to seasonal cleaning of closet, required for mental hygiene.
“I hate it when my one night stand becomes my WFF!”
“She is one of those WFFs that actually really started growing on me.. I mean, I basically don’t know the girl, but I feel close to her.”
Visualized by Eva Papamargariti
