Everyone has their preferences for social media: there is facebook, myspace, twitter, stumbleupon, and the list goes on and on. Personally, I haven't really gotten into social media. I feel like the relationships developed online aren't as "real". Of course I've never actually developed a true relationship with anyone online. I think I'm a little skeptical of who is out there.
For me I use social media outlets for keeping up with and sharing information with current friends. A general rule for me is to be online friends with people I've met at least once. I think I have difficulty making friends online because I am pretty skeptical of people in general. I tend not to make "true" friends easily, even in person.
As a result, I tend to think that social media relationships are, as Clive Thomson puts it in "I'm So Digitally Close to You," , "the ultimate expression of a generation of celebrity-addled youths who believe their every utterance is fascinating and ought to be shared with the world". On some level I think this addiction to social media is creating a generation of socially stunted people.
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