One of the things I've been thinking about is whether or not social networking tools are simultaneously increasing the number of relationships we're able to maintain and decreasing the depth of each relationship.
For example, someone I went to high school with got engaged this morning. They posted this information to Facebook. A number of people responded to this post with a congratulatory note.
I considered doing so as well. However, in the end I didn't feel that it was really appropriate. While, I'm 'friends' with this person I have talked to her in nearly nine years. A congratulations from me would be a hollow social gesture, completely devoid of meaning.
So are tools like Facebook making more and more of our social interactions hollow and meaningless?
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