The Facebook Generation

Where in our parent’s generation there was a separation that took place between friends due to marriage, moving and/or children, I don’t see that happening to our generation. Our parents lacked the social networking tools that we have today. It is much easier to keep in touch with an old friend if all you have to do is look them up on Facebook/MySpace, rather than trying to find their phone number in a phonebook. It is also much easier to reopen a dialog, either through e-mail, instant messages or messaging over Facebook/MySpace.

There was an article in The Washington Post today that discussed the possibility of Facebook replacing yearbooks in high school. I don’t know if that will ever happen, but when you think about it, Facebook is much better in terms of making photos and interests of old classmates available.