This. This this this. I check Facebook a lot. Possibly too much. Partly it's because I'm in college and it's winter and so I spend most of my time sitting in f

This. This this this. I check Facebook a lot. Possibly too much. Partly it's because I'm in college and it's winter and so I spend most of my time sitting in front of the computer as-is, partly it's because I'm sure I do have a bit of an addiction problem. But for the last 6 months I've used it with only 50 or so friends: people who are close to me. One friend is in Argentina. Some friends are across the country. We keep in touch and tell each other things using Facebook. It's faster than using email, and it's less awkward than calling. (I hate the sound of a person over the phone, and some people I just don't talk to.) But it doesn't turn you into a monster unless you let it. You don't have to poke or use applications. You don't have to incessantly update your status. Facebook doesn't force it. In fact, it punishes you a bit in that it adds clutter to the interface. I find it kind of sad that this is the tripe Newsweek sees fit to print nowadays. I stopped reading their paper magazine over the summer, because I was astonished at how, in the two years I read it, it had gone from a pretty decent magazine to a publication interested in sensationalism and petty stories. It seems the trend has continued.