Something Worse than Facebook?

This is a very smart article on the reasons for and effects of our constant online contact--our "ambient awareness." I'd never heard of Twitter, but it makes me think my Facebook addiction isn't so bad. Dunbar numbers are interesting, too--150 people is evidentally the average person's network of connections. The article mentioned "people in their 20s who were in college when Facebook appeared and have never lived as adults without online awareness." This is distressing--Ilana, not that you're an adult, but you probably need a break from Facebook. A final quote: “Can you imagine a Facebook for children in kindergarten, and they never lose touch with those kids for the rest of their lives?" This will likely prevent people from normal, healthy change and development that naturally results from moving to a new place and leaving old friends behind. When you never leave any friends behind (they have immediate access to little details about you), it is much more difficult to adjust the ways in which you understand and portray yourself. For instance, I'm too shy to put Catholic down under religion on Facebook, for fear it will offend my Pentecostal people.