I was reading an NPR article that someone sent me today and this quote caught my eye. Speaking about social networks the author quoted 25 year old May Wilkerson:
"What that means is that you have contact with many, many more people, but each of those relationships takes up a little bit less of your life. That fragmentation of the social world creates a lot of loneliness."
I often find myself on Facebook wondering what I am looking for from that experience, and feeling that it doesn't bring me much satisfaction. I do think all these social networking sites have a purpose, but when they become the end in themselves, especially for long periods of time each day, I think the side effects include a lot of mental confusion and clutter, and perhaps some emotional emptiness. After catching myself on Facebook for a while, I will go take a walk, or exercise, or go to the beach, and it feels so much better than staring at the computer screen.
The article that this came from is actually about sexual encounters replacing dating, and can be found here.
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