> Perhaps you're young and haven't known life without Facebook? It used to be that people just lost track of each other all the time. Sure, but now many seem t

> Perhaps you're young and haven't known life without Facebook? It used to be that people just lost track of each other all the time. Sure, but now many seem to loose track of people they are sitting in the same room with and maybe even choose to not be in that room due to a social media addiction. As creators we have a lot of power to design experiences that amplify behavioral patterns. Maybe we've gamed them too much in this case and need to more balance? > Facebook (and other social networks) allow people to maintain orders of magnitude more weak links than before. I am old enough to remember that. :) Most people would still at some point settle into a social circle and routine that build healthy relationships where they lived for a while. People move, but few people move so much that this is not possible. I think weak links are a poor replacement for a person that sits in the same room as you in an engaged conversation.