I can't tell you how happy that made us feel that so many people were excited for us...but probably a third of those people haven't talked to me face-to-face or on the phone for over 2 years. But we are still "friends" on Facebook so that means we are still friends in real life... right? It is just interesting to me that the only contact I have with some of these people is to "Like" each others' random stuff as we scroll through our phones. I am totally guilty of this too though. There are so many of those people who I too haven't bothered to call in the last 2 years because I "don't have time." But I do still care about a lot of them. Has Facebook, with it's purpose of Keeping us Connected to those we love, actually made our relationships more shallow? I don't know.
Anyway...this just made me want to actually talk to these "friends" of mine about their lives instead of just "scrolling" through.
Congrats!! That is so exciting. Facebook is so interesting. I'm so bad at staying connected with people and I'm not sure Facebook helps me have a relationship with my friends. At least it's good at letting me know what they are up to.
ReplyDeleteThis is very true. Friendships have taken a whole new perspective and even definition. I am "friends" with people whom I really do not have an active friendship with.
ReplyDeleteI would like to look at it as "keeping in touch gone easy method". Before Facebook came along, there were the friendships that I had because of convenience. Those were the ones that lived near me and I ran circles with. Then there were those friends that lived far away and I communicated once a year with a Christmas card.
Facebook has extended my friend base to those from my childhood, high school, past places I have lived and current friends where I live now.
I agree with Jessica, it is a great way to be informed as to what everyone is up to.
Congratulations! And I loved this post - It's something I think about often. There are many friends on my Facebook that I still really care about and should make the time to talk to more often. I'm glad that Facebook keeps us updated on each other's lives, but I wish we did more to keep up our relationships. At the same time, I feel like a lot of the people we "friend" on Facebook aren't actually people who we truly invest care or concern for, beyond a surface-level interest. I frequently end up going through my friend list and deleting all of the people who I feel I don't really have any relationship with anymore.
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