On Wed, 2011-05-25 at 10:09 -0600, John Shaver wrote: > Just because you can't make friends doesn't mean other people have the > same problem.
Gee, thanks. If you'd bother to think about what I was saying maybe you would have understood my point instead of wasting so many words on the rather obvious observation that "FB is just a tool". I didn't think it would be necessary to explain that using FB as a fancy form of email is different than using FB as another version of TV, but I guess I will. Just like many TV shows create a false sense of friendship, voyeuristic browsing of someone's FB content is not the same as real friendship. (But don't tell your brain, it releases the same chemicals anyway.) When "reconnecting" with an old friend becomes nothing more than a couple clicks, it cheapens the gesture. When posting on fifteen different walls replaces having lunch with a couple friends, you've been sucked in by the illusion. When friendship is reduced to a graph problem, that's just sad. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
