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Could I email them? Sure, but that's broken and impersonal. How much more personal can you get than one person writing a message specifically to one other per

• keiferski 13y ago
  Because I have to look up their email (jabberwocky586@yahoo.com) and deliberately send them an email length message. On Facebook, I see their real name, their photo, their about page, and various recent things about their life. If I want to talk to them, I tap the chat bar and say two words. Email is extremely cold and impersonal compared to Facebook chat. Most "normal" people don't use email outside of business or more specific uses.
  • EliRivers 13y ago
    Whereas to me, what you describe sounds fantastically superficial and impersonal, whereas in sending a personal eMail I've had to actually, deliberately think about my interaction with them. I suppose context goes a long way.
    • threeseed 13y ago
      And yet to me it does sound more personal. Because by adding someone on Facebook you have opened up your life to them on a semi-permanent basis. With email there is the assumption that the relationship will be more intermittent and flippant.
      • EliRivers 13y ago
        you have opened up your life to them on a semi-permanent basis You have opened a lifetime of impersonal comments directed at a disinterested crowd. By its very nature, it won't be personal. "I'm having beans for dinner." "Beans a legend lol" "I'm getting divorced and I've told you and the other five hundred 'friends' here at the same time, in the same way"
  • jonknee 13y ago
    You don't have an address book? When I email someone I see their real name and photo too. I do miss out on where they had dinner last night or that they went to the beach, but that has nothing to do with anything.