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The Belonging Motive

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Remember when “friend” was just another noun? Looking back, I can’t help but marvel at how the world has changed since “friending,” the verb, arrived on the scene in 2006.

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  1. Simono Kemp, “Global Social Media Users Pass 2 Billion” in News on We Are Social Blog, http://wearesocial.net/blog downloaded August 8, 2014.

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Forbes, D. (2015). The Belonging Motive. In: The Science of Why. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137502049_13

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