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Originally Posted by Dottore
This is what I'm always told. Yet I have friends around the globe and have absolutely no trouble taying in touch by post, phone and email. Why FB? I really neither need or want to know what distant friends are doing 24/7. I don't care if their dog has puppies or their kid loses a tooth. That is too much information in a world already overloaded with information.
But there is a deeper point. I like to communicate with my good and distant friends when it is important. Not just because I can. And I like to do so personally. I don't want the friendship reduced to the exchange of banal and inane things as it so often is on FB. FB has no soul. It demeans people. It devalues the currency of friendship. It reduces friendship to a popularity contest.
I find it all a bit sad.
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Not at all.
It is what you make it.
If your friends are of similar mind then nothing changes but the form of communication.
Your argument could have applied to the invention of the phone or email yet you use them.