Facebookkeeping
I generally like the NYT but this article about Facebook is lame. The author was not using Facebook in the manner for which it was intended, i.e. interacting with people you know in real life. I have roughly 500 or so Facebook friends but all of them are people I've met in real life. Over half of them are people I used to know fairly well but from whom I've been separated by geography and with whom I'm still interested in maintaining contact but the rest (about 200) are people with whom I interact on at least a semi-regular basis. Almost all my close friends who live nearby are on Facebook so we use it to chat about random stuff or plan upcoming events. I'll have to try using Facebook to invite people over for a party and see how it goes but I suspect it'd work pretty well.
