Facebook is a networking system which is designed to bring people into new networks, and bring them closer together. However, it is also breeding a new phenomenon... Facebook friends.
Facebook friends are people who have lost contact with each other, and only exist in each others world by clicking 'forward to all' on Facebook. let me give you an example.
I used to work with Lisa. She's a great girl, with a very funny view on life. But she also lives 12 miles away, and when she stopped working where I work, we lost contact.
Enter Facebook. As we were facebook friends, and it being just too damn hard to delete each other off of facebook (all those clicks! Tired, just thinking about it!), we leave each other on there.
So when I get a video about a baby called Charlie biting me, or someone sleeping with Ben Affleck, I naturally click forward all- and Lisa receives it. It's networking at it's finest, you may say.
Switch back to real life. On the rare occasion we do see each other, and I mean rare- to the point of once a year, it is so uncomfortable. A smile, polite hello, and move on.
Back on Facebook, and everything gets forwarded on, and the relationship is young and virile. In life, it has aged and died.
Facebook friends are virtual friends; unfortunately, they are also only just virtually friends.
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