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consuming status updates containing skewed and filtered representations of someone's life. I much prefer skewed and filtered representations of my friends. It

consuming status updates containing skewed and filtered representations of someone's life. I much prefer skewed and filtered representations of my friends. It's much easier to interact with a caricatured, mean-field average of my 900 or so Facebook friends (aka "the audience") than to do it (shudder) one-on-one.

wahnfrieden 14y ago
Is it not preferable to have more meaningful, personal interactions with a smaller group of people?
- spaghetti 14y ago
  Good point. When you're dreading interacting with someone one-on-one they're probably not a true friend. So perhaps fb is good for maintaining acquaintances rather than actual friendships.
- theorique 14y ago
  Yes, I was attempting (perhaps unsuccessfully) to be ironic.