The Death of Friendship by William Deresiewicz

Author:William Deresiewicz
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Tags: ECONOMICS / General, BUSINESS &#038
ISBN: 9781612301280
Publisher: New Word City, Inc.
Published: 2011-07-31T14:00:00+00:00

And so we return to Facebook. With the social-networking sites of the new century – Friendster and MySpace were launched in 2003, Facebook in 2004 - the friendship circle has expanded to engulf the whole of the social world, and in so doing, destroyed both its own nature and that of the individual friendship itself. Facebook’s very premise - and promise - is that it makes our friendship circles visible. There they are, my friends, all in the same place. Except, of course, they’re not in the same place, or, rather, they’re not my friends. They’re simulacra of my friends, little dehydrated packets of images and information, no more my friends than a set of baseball cards is the New York Mets.

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