News Finding: Further (subjective, but suggestive) evidence supporting our "inverted regime" of friendship distribution (most very good friends, but not many overall) predicted in our paper  … from @username writing in @username  … 
Paper Finding: Since these technologies reduce the effective cost of maintaining some relationships, it should be easier for individuals to establish larger networks and this should promote the standard regime.
News Context: Further (subjective, but suggestive) evidence supporting our "inverted regime" of friendship distribution (most very good friends, but not many overall) predicted in our paper  … from @username writing in @username  … 
Paper Context: More interestingly, perhaps, our model predicts how the increasing availability of online social networks may affect the way we handle our relationships. Since these technologies reduce the effective cost of maintaining some relationships, it should be easier for individuals to establish larger networks and this should promote the standard regime. However, if online relationships are cheaper to maintain because they obviate the costly business of physically meeting up with an alter , it follows that any increase in online network size will be associated with a reduction in average tie strength.