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Recently I was introduced to the wonders that are Friendster and Facebook. Two websites that both do basically the same thing: create a false sense of staying connected/reconnecting with people. You ask someone to be your "friend," they have the option to say yes or no, and then without ever talking to one another you're allowed to feel as though you have a large "social net" and lots of "friends." Sure there's that nice warm feeling when someone you haven't talked to in awhile asks you to be their "friend," but where's the actual interaction?

So clearly I'm guilty of continuing this ridiculousness, seeing as I've become mildly obsessed with both (so far 51 "friends" on Friendster, and 36 on Facebook!), but that doesn't mean that I can't recognize the absurdity of it all. Really what I should do if I wanted to act on these beliefs, is "message" the people I haven't talked to since high school that I'm now "friends" with, but there are so many of them that I feel like that will just increase my obsession...

My main point is that it's interesting how even friendship has entered a new era, where human interaction has been fazed out. Not needing human interaction for friendship, something that clearly is based on contact between people is insanely ridiculous.

On a different note, any local people that need a place for Shabbas dinner, you're invited to my place--just let me know!