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A lot is made about whether one can truly have “friends” on the Internet. It was probably Facebook that really got us talking when instead of using “connection” or some other less intimate word they used “Friend” as the type of connections we made as we connected with someone on the Internet through their site.
I have only known education with the Internet. My first email address came with my first teaching job twenty-one years ago, and my first Internet access (AOL) was at home that first fall of teaching. I have been thinking about friendship in the Internet era this week with the sudden passing of one of my Internet friends, Kevin Mowat.
