"Facebook had replaced much of the emotional labor of social networking that consumed previous generations." But that's exactly the thing that makes Facebook w

"Facebook had replaced much of the emotional labor of social networking that consumed previous generations." But that's exactly the thing that makes Facebook worthless to me. I have maybe half a dozen of real friends, add a dozen of acquaintances to this list. It's absolutely worth my time and I value those friendships deeply enough to invest time and energy into them. I cannot - in seriousness - maintain "friendships" with dozens or hundreds of "friends" and I couldn't care less what my class mates from high school did last summer. I'm absolutely not interested in a machine, which maintains such non-friendships for me. Being a baby boomer this may be a generational thing, but I just don't care for that shallowness that Facebook defines as friendship.