"Facebook allows us to approach and interact with each other on a pace
that makes things easy–perhaps too easy. Perhaps the facility of
communication tricks us into thinking that someone is still a real
friend, just because they’re under that heading on our computer screens."
I know how this feels, I have deactivated my facebook twice now and always come crawling back. It's not just that I have the illusion of online friends being real friends (although that is part of it) it's also that I end up feeling excluded by my real friends. When I don't have facebook I can't see peoples pictures, I don't get the invites to events, I miss out on inside jokes. In short not having facebook makes one feel like an outsider among groups of friends.
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