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Can Facebook ruin friendships? True friendships? Probably not. But I think sometimes we certainly can irritate each other with it!! I think a few of my liberal friends simply have me on hide - which kind of makes the idea of staying in touch moot!
All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. But some people just won't shut up online—while others reveal far too much. As one exasperated user puts it, Why is your life so frickin' important and entertaining that we need to know?" /><meta name="subsection" content="Health & Wellness" /><meta name="section" content="Article" /><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="ISO-8859-1
How online communication is different from face to face interactions.
David Phillippi on 2009-09-06
This is not unlike other "new" technologies...telephone,automobile ect. in that there is a lag time between the introduction of the technology, and the development of the "rules of the road". I do think that there are "rules" and changes being made to the technology that will help with some of the "problems" addressed in this article.
Yay!
Notice to my friends: I love you all dearly.
But I don't give a hoot that you are "having a busy Monday," your child "took 30 minutes to brush his teeth," your dog "just ate an ant trap" or you want to "save the piglets." And I really, really don't care which Addams Family member you most resemble. (I could have told you the answer before you took the quiz on Facebook.)
Here's where you and I went wrong: We took our friendship online. First we began communicating more by email than by phone. Then we switched to "instant messaging" or "texting." We "friended" each other on Facebook, and began communicating by "tweeting" our thoughts—in 140 characters or less—via Twitter.
good article
Facebook backlash. Yadda yadda. Also see Twitter backlash: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2009-08-24-online-tweet-twitter_N.htm
lol
All this online social networking was supposed to make us closer. And in some ways it has. But some people just won't shut up online—while others reveal far too much. As one exasperated user puts it, Why is your life so frickin' important and entertaining that we need to know?" /><meta name="subsection" content="Health & Wellness" /><meta name="section" content="Article" /><script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" charset="ISO-8859-1
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