Personally, I don't use any of the online social networking sites. I don't have a facebook, myspace, twitter, or any other type of account whatsoever. I think it is a waste of time. All the people that I want to keep in contact with, I just do it in person, on the phone, and through e-mail. I don't feel any need to extend my "friendships" to anyone that I don't care to associate with often.
I understand why people would want to do this kind of stuff though. For one thing, everyone has a facebook account nowadays and people find it strange if you don't. For lots of people, it is the natural way to follow up on people and contact them easily.
Although I don't see any benefit to society and relationships through the use of these social networking sites, I don't believe that they are changing the society. I think that people cling to these things because it is what they want. If people didn't want this, there would be no myspace. People are changing, and markets change to adhere and make money. Our culture is changing the web, the web and networking sites only exacerbates the problem.
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