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I recently checked into FB, now use it, though hardly with the knowingness of other inveterate users. It's useful for communicating with my FB-chattering grandchildren with whom I would otherwise not interact. And, I have found some old contacts, long dormant, with some measure of pleasant surprises. As for the locals and those with whom I consistently interact on a face-to-face basis, we do whatever we do on FB, and when we're together, we don't even mention it, and socialize as we always have. I guess my thought is that the medium is useful when used with some care, but it is a crappy substitute for any meaningful interpersonal interaction.
Technology keeps changing, but people seem to stay the same.
I'm old enough to recall article upon article warning that letter-writing was under threat by something I'm too old to remember--the telephone?
In the crowd I ran with in the late 50s and early 60s, we wrote letters to people we were going to see in a few hours. It didn't make things boring or uneasy.
I remember pouring my broken heart out in the late 70s to someone who was balancing her checkbook and watching television simultaneously. I'm still pissed about that.
