Talk:Friends and references

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About changing the name from "friends" to "CS-connections" see http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/02/my_advice_to_so.html

If possible, find some other way to call the connections between people "friends" -- maybe even use a unique trademarkable term. There is some power in the emotions behind the word friends that helps with the virus-like nature of social networking software, but I think in the long term it is a bad idea. LinkedIn and Spoke use the word connections which sounds too mechanical, but I think it is better then "friends".