Facebook has become quite the phenomenon. So many repeat, addicted users blabbering away to people that they would have never thought of again in their lives if they wouldn’t have shown up on Facebook…
It’s an odd situation. In the past, a normal person would have maybe 20 non-family members that were a regular part of their lives… people that they normally converse with, think about, and communicate in a non-business way.
But now, there a people that have hundreds of “friends” on Facebook… Of these hundreds, there are, again a handfull that you would never think of if they didn’t occasionally pop something up on their “wall”. And even then, it’s a stimulus/response relationship where you are stimulated, and you respond… or, you simply ignore and move on.
I hear people talking about how crazy it is that people just belch out the banal details of their day to day lives to a bunch of consumers (the people that just troll for updates) and a few providers ( the ones that add content.)
They all say “why would you do that? What’s the point? These are poeple that you haven’t seen or heard from in decades, why do you care now?”
I don’t really have a good answer to that… but, every once in awhile… an old friend will pop up. Someone that you haven’t heard from in a really long time. And you get the opportunity to reconnect realizing the hole that was left that just got filled.
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