Wireless Walls

Oct 16, 2008 22:37


             Sometime in June 2007, a co-worker sent me an email invitation to sign-up with a social-networking website called “Facebook.” Co-incidentally, about a week before this, I heard a CBC Radio program panel discussing the positives and negatives of Facebook and its cyber-culture phenomenon status. The panel’s consensus on the merit of ( Read more... )

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knitfish October 24 2008, 19:04:35 UTC
wow! this is a great essay nicole :-)
I almost never go onto my facebook account, I only have it to keep in touch with Jeff's family with photo updates and such. They are hardcore facebook addicts.
I had a friend whom I had not talked to in a few years, I think he was still mad at me for picking Jeff over him when I decided to start dating again after a long being-single break from dating. Anyways, he added me on facebook, which I thought was him telling me that he wanted to be friends again but in fact I think he just wanted to spy on me. I wrote him a letter through facebook, and he never replied. So I deleted him. Why "friend" someone who is not really your friend?
I really don't consider people my "real" friends unless I feel comfortable calling them up to hang out. You are right, there is nothing online that can replace that face to face contact.

~Nessa

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