where those people go? the ones you lost track of ... the ones you don't speak to. even if you were or are done with them. doesn't curiousity ever get the best of you? do these people continue to have lives after they have finished affecting yours? and if you're wondering about it, which means they are continuing to affect you, what does that mean?
i think these social networking sites go against nature. people are supposed to come into your life and then leave and then you're supposed to be done with them. you're not supposed to get updates on your news feed about them. you're not supposed to forge fake relationships with them just because you can or just because it will boost your popularity on facebook. it is harder to forget about people you want to because they are in your daily techno life and you are continuously confronted with updates on their lives ... if it's with twitter - you get updates every four minutes.
although i guess i can't really complain and it's not all bad .... i reconnected with someone i rather enjoy having in my life through facebook. it's so strange to think about and i probably wouldn't have, if someone hadn't brought it directly to my attention the other day, but i would honestly be in a very different place right now with my life and who i surround myself with if it were not for facebook and some very pointed and directed friend sprees i went on during bouts of dissatisfaction with my social life a little earlier this year. i sometimes go back and read the messages and wall posts from this time and it's so odd how i have complete documentation of the process and i can clearly get an emotional memory of how i felt when i saw that first wall post or what i was thinking when i responded.
i guess facebook, etc are kind of changing the way we evolve, relationship wise. it'll take some getting used to, but i suppose that for the time being, i don't think that it's all that bad ;)
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