A friendship is not endangered by a switch of context, while casual acquaintances may be lost. Friends are people who are mainly interested in you, not ones who choose theirs ranking by convenience of communication method. Any social media has a broadcast mentality to it, like it would be too cumbersome to stay in touch otherwise. This is not a new occurrence. It has always been easier to “stay in touch” with the people immediately surrounding you. However, following that definition, the people who are your best friends would be the people you spend the most time with, which are probably you co-workers.

Just imagine anyone taking the time to actually formulate a piece of personal writing, process thoughts before writing them down and in the end having to weigh what information to share or to write that letter at all, to have finite resources to write and to have to choose who is important and who is not. Instead of just flooding everyone with the same, probably curated and edited, information.

Then again, I’m probably not the intended target group of Facebook and similar networks. People also smoke, drink, take drugs, have unprotected sex with strangers, risk their lives in stupid endeavors and generally do highly illogical things on a constant basis.