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When Everyone’s A “Friend”, What’s a Friend?

Interesting post in the NYTs today under the Shifting Careers column. The author, Marci Alboher, posts some compelling thoughts about the different ways people use newer, social web applications. She spends most of her time talking about Facebook.

Here is one line in the article that really resounded with me:

At the moment, I’m not sure I have any conclusions about all this except that we are living in a moment when all our tools of connection can both deepen our relationships and cheapen them.

I can relate to that thought.