Is Facebook destroying meaningful conversation?

[jp11]

17. Intimacy matters.

I like having meaningful interactions with people, specifically one or two at a time not 'blasting' out information to a bunch of them. Whether or not they are all my 'friends' or people that might be interested in that information. I like to choose who knows this or that and whatnot.

I also like to know who actually cares to be a part of my life and listen/communicate with me. What amounts to clicking 'subscribe' isn't what I'd call a really good friend or someone I want to be included in my life.

Having said that some people really like it and it 'works' for them so I don't really care if they want to use it. I do take issue when people you know and care about choose to use it almost exclusively over other forms of communication. We all have our preferences for communication but if yours forces me to where I don't want to go/be then we have issues that however is nothing new.

I prefer text messages to phone calls for simple information and emails for longer ones but a phone call is superior to all when there is more to be said or something big comes up and you can't meetup. I think those are all fine, a range of ways to communicate that take in account the varying degrees of time a person might have. For those people with hundreds of friends/contacts it probably won't work to have dozens of phone calls about the same thing. I'm also probably not one of the people who fits as your friend though, you simply won't have the time to have a meaningful relationship with me or most of those in your gaggle of contacts.