Those who got there first: Familiarity, favourites and social media

Peter Ustinov once said that friends weren't necessarily the people you liked best, just the ones that had got there first.

Those who got there first: Familiarity, favourites and social media

Arwa MahdawiOgilvy London

"I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first." Peter Ustinov.

True? If so, might this observation also apply to your favourite countries, music, reading and food, for example?

You like this essay.

Well, maybe you don't. Chances are, though, if I posted a link to it on Facebook, a good number of my friends would 'like' it…although they probably wouldn't bother reading it. And if I tweeted a link to it, a...

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