Ryan Sayre Patrico noted yesterday how he heard the news of his two friends’ deaths last week on Facebook: “The horrible news was announced almost immediately on the popular social-networking website, sandwiched between two other people declaring that their weekend hadn’t lived up to their expectations.”
For an insightful read on how social-networking sites are changing how we view friendship and how we communicate, look to Christine Rosen’s New Atlantis essay, ” Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism .”
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