I read an article called Keeping Our Distance, The Facebook Way. The author Damon Darlin discusses how Facebooks enables the current generation to know what is going on in other peoples lives with out the hassle of actually talking to the person or going to see the other person. Making it easier for people to become detached for actual human interaction due to the fact that it is not as efficient as interacting through social networks. He then goes on to argue how technology is making human interaction less and less frequent in hopes of making everything more convenient and efficient.
While I do use Facebook and check it almost everyday I don’t really use it to interact with anyone a great deal. I find it more of a hassle to write on someones wall then it is to text them. I do comment of the occasional picture but I am no where near at the level of the average Facebook user. To me it is more like just another email account I check every day just to see what messages I received and respond if needed. After reading Darlin’s article one sentence stuck out in my mind: “After all, technology has a grand tradition of distancing people from one another for the sake of efficiency.” This quote stuck out because it is quite a suggestive quote. One that I do not completely agree with. Technology in many ways brings people closer more then ever. Today people can have friendships with people half way around the world and even see them with out ever meeting them in person. Perhaps the ability to connect with so many people deprives us of more intimate relationships. Due to the fact that today's world encourages us and enables us to interact with as many people as possible.
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