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> Facebook is the only platform with i use to connect to some of my closest friends on the other side of the planet. I keep saying this over and over. If you c
by jogjayr 9y ago
> Facebook is the only platform with i use to connect to some of my closest friends on the other side of the planet.
I keep saying this over and over. If you can't keep in active touch with someone (phone, email, IM, text, Skype) then they're not that important to you. It doesn't even need to be very frequent - once a quarter, every six months.
If you can't manage that level of contact with someone* then there's little point hanging on to the feeling that you're still somehow connected with them. Every generation prior to ours accepted this as their reality and yet we feel we're different somehow.
*Exception: everyone has friends that they may not talk to for years but as soon as you see them or get on the phone with them you can pick up the relationship effortlessly.
- gitgud 9y agoSomething I've realised over the years, is that you can't "passively" maintain a friendship across the other side of the planet. You need to contact people directly in order to preserve meaningful relationships with them. Facebook makes it too easy to keep passive relationships with friends around the world, liking status's and photos are not meaningful interactions in my opinion... Unfortunately, this is how I no longer connect with a lot of my long distance friends.