I’ve been irreversibly addicted to the Internet since the summer of 1994, so I’ve had a little bit of experience with the emotional roller coaster that Internet-mediated communication can sometimes bring. It’s so easy to find people you know (or sorta know) online, and — thanks to sites like Facebook and MySpace — feel like the world is shrinking as your network of “friends” grows. But I guess my point here is that this isn’t always a good thing. Somehow, I’ve managed to accumulate 90 Facebook friends in a fairly short period of time… and while I do actually *know* the vast majority of those 90 people (there may just be one or two who I’m kinda sketchy on), it’s a bit weird to think that, as my own use of Facebook has grown, there are 90 people out there who have immediate access to whatever whimsical thought I had a few hours earlier. I use MySpace a whole lot less, but it is not without its “perhaps my world is too small?” moments, either.
This has been one of those days.