Instagram’s green circles contain hidden messages for our friends, loved ones, and the people we might like to love one day.
‘Close friends’ has created a whole framework for how we interact, a minefield of unspoken rules and cues that are becoming harder and harder to decipher.
Most broadly, ‘close friends’ is a way to curate content that’s relevant to one’s workplace, friends and family. This segmentation of followers can also apply to dating, Lanai says. “If a cute guy that I might want to date follows me I tried to hide my insanity via my close friends group.”On the other hand, adding someone to your close friends can be a sign you want to get to know someone better. It can “add a level of intimacy if you add someone to your ‘close friends’ list”, says Portolan. “It’s an interesting social cue.
Dr Paul Byron, from the School of Communication at UTS, studies digital cultures of care and friendship. In his interviews with LGBTQA+ young people , he says a common theme was the use of close friends for digital peer support. “People don’t want to burden their friends, we hear that a lot these days,” he says. Posting something to an intimate group of people can therefore be an indirect way to signal that you’re struggling.
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