Facebook, twitter, and myspace?

[Polly]

Why does everyone have one?
Email your close friends pictures...dont flaunt them on some website for everyone to see!
And pick up the phone and CALL the people that you care about...have real conversations! Send someone a nice, handwritten letter or card. Be more thoughtful!

[Ggg Hhh]

If you don't like them, you don't have to use them. Facebook isn't just for connecting with people you know, it's also good for businesses and organisations to promote themselves.

[thankfulrain800]

Facebook is a stupid site that you're basically a social outcast if you don't have one.
Twitter is actually meant for people that don't have time to tell each individual person what they're up to. So if a famous musician is going to announce a concert date for his/her fans, it makes it easy for the fans to know what's happening, and when.
And just wtf is this myspace you speak of? Myspace is a dying site that only hipsters use. I think that I deleted my myspace something like six years ago. If you have a myspace, then you deserve to be shunned on the internet.

[FstaRocka]

Communication, just like publications and more have taken on the low (or no) cost of digital media. Many great things are said and shared via these methods. I think u are trying to insinuate that these networking methods are incapable of delivering 'real' contact - I tend to disagree. Btw twitter and myspace are more commercial methods, ie online publications to be found, not sent. Image sending a handwritten letter to 250 followers? Plus the cost of paper to the environment would be an utter waste.
Facebook is more social - offering privacy options that can and do create a more personal space.

One thing I disagree with however is facefook friendship-addiction. I reckon 85% of people have a large amount of people on their friends list that arent really close enough friends, thats where I would agree with you - its not that people need to discern between real and not real, they need to simply apply it - because sadly yes - I agree people get caught up way too much on the net - building semi-real or false friendships behind walls, but then I ask myself - doesnt that happen outside of the virtual world? It does, and therefore its a matter of personal growth / maturity - and just how far you are willing to float from real positive connections for the sake of temporary satisfaction.. so i guess the issue are, as usual the people - not the technology.