There was always a reason I didn’t join facebook until a year later than everyone else.  It was something in the concept of it: the accruing of friends solely to have friends, a subtle expectation to be in constant contact with those people on your list and lastly having people from yesteryear that you really don’t care for anymore contacting you.

Now many arguments can be made for facebook, and some I do support.  I personally used facebook throughout my travels abroad for an easy way to keep in touch with people I met as a simple e-mail address exchange provides all the information you could want about a person and profiles are very helpful in helping my now old mind to remember meeting the person.

I came across an article on one of the (nerd/tech) sites I visit on a regular basis  with an article written by one of the editors that argues against facebook.  His sentiments mirror my own in regards to friendship.  Here’s a small snippet with the link to the entire article following:

Friendship is not based on constant contact and interaction. Friendship is based on the emotional attachment that we have to other individuals, and if this emotional attachment is real, it doesn’t become weaker over time, no matter how rarely you see that person. I have a friend that I’ve known since I was three years old and sometimes we go two or three years without seeing each other. Does that mean that our friendship is weak? No. Does that mean that I should register on Facebook and add him to my friends list so that we can communicate more often? No. It means that our friendship is strong enough that if we get together after three years of not seeing each other, it feels as if we’d seen each other only yesterday.

You can find the rest of the article here.