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Facebook: a social network experiment

I am a willing victim of Facebook. Maybe an addict as well. I am someone who wants to know everything about everyone and tell everyone a lot. Either that's vanity or being a people's person. I don't know. But that's how it is. And this happened slowly. I got my life converted to a Facebook script. It became a live journal of what you did and where you went. It was also a way to share what you like, tell how you feel and show who you are. Weird is that it was not for lack of real living people around me, it was more of 'despite them' or at the cost of redundancy. What changed was that instead of telling what happened, everyone is already on the same page when you meet them and the time that conversations fill gets filled with real conversations a bit and rest with other discussions about people we are aware of but don't know.   It did feed the need to know. People from your past who you are not in touch with are an open book. There are people I see comin...