Social friending - William Deresiewicz on the meaning of friendship [18Jun10] - 0 views
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Having been relegated to our screens, are our friendships now anything more than a form of distraction?
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Facebook isn’t the whole of contemporary friendship, but it sure looks a lot like its future. Yet Facebook—and MySpace, and Twitter, and whatever we’re stampeding for next—are just the latest stages of a long attenuation. They’ve accelerated the fragmentation of consciousness, but they didn’t initiate it.
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We’re busy people; we want our friendships fun and friction-free.
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