I've been saying for a long time that Facebook, MySpace, etc. is just Email 2.0. Instead of targeting recipients so you can update people about your life, you keep an online profile. It's a way to stay connected with people and saves you the time of having to feel people out before figuring out which of your life's updates they'll be interested in and which they could care less about. You post a picture, for example, and people who have something to contribute respond and those who don't, wont!
Check out this interesting new study: Social Media Users Really Are More Social
The beauty of it is that you end up finding more people that think the same way you do. Instead of a lot of the fained interest that people show in your day to day life, people come out of their shells more and say what they really think and relationships are built based on your "real" thoughts rather than the more politically correct ones you express in public settings.
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