Hal Niedzviecki's Facebook In A Crowd

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Society today is mainly focused on social media and how many followers/friends you have. Making friends online is much easier in person because it just takes one click and done, you just made a new friend. The virtual number of friends/followers we have on social media can effect an individual self-confidence. In the article “Facebook in a Crowd,” Hal Niedzviecki is a man who does not have many real friends that he connects with, he was a workaholic with a 2-year old child at home. One day while logging into Facebook Niedzviecki was happy to realize that he had over 700 friends or should I say “cyberpals.” Because of his lack of real friends, Hal invites his 700 plus Facebook friends to an event he creates on Facebook, in hopes to meet new