People I know in Real Life

the article for this post is "meet my 5000 new best pals" by janet kornblum. the gist of this article is about social networks sites and how ridiculous they can be. for those of us online (and i don't know how you're reading this if you aren't), most of us are connecting through some type of social networking site like facebook or myspace or whatever. the article talks about the fact that there are no rules for friend list and the fact that they can be faked. facebook is the main site that i use. i've already had people on there friend me who i didn't have a clue about. people from all over the world. i never friend someone that i don't know. one of my friends doesn't friend somebody unless he would actually talk to in real life for some amount of time. there have been a lot of complaints about social networking cites and about how they're breaking communication down. i say meh. i use facebook to talk to friends that i see all the time, to post various pictures (both slighty embarrassing and not at all), and, perhaps the best use for such a site, to connect with people and friends from long (well, for me anyway at age 25) ago who i wouldn't have had a clue where to find. so, bad and good but, like any product, it's just there. the worth is left up to the person who uses it.