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My Thoughts on Social Networking

I’ve been thinking lately about all of these social networking sites, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, and so on.  We didn’t have all of this stuff ten years ago, but now everyone seems to think that having them is absolutely necessary in today’s society, that they simply couldn’t get along without them at all.  I don’t know where this idea came from.  I don’t use them, I never have.  I feel like it removes something, the personal element from human interaction.  Resorts everything to words and text, images.  There is no feeling, no human touch.  It feels cold and impersonal to me, even if you know someone, just to vaguely “know” them and hear from them once a week or once a month.  I don’t think I could ever have a friend like that.  Either I know someone and trust them completely and consider them a friend or I don’t know them at all.