Virtual Friendships & False Intimacy

This is an interesting article about facebook and touches upon a couple of my reasons for quitting. The title bugs me, and I think there are some audacious assertions, but it's food for thought.

http://news.infoshop.org/article.php?story=virtual-friendships

When the world is conceived of as a global marketplace, every interaction can seem to be about buying and selling. People are encouraged to blur the distinction between self expression and creating a marketable image. The forms of expression supported by social networking technology are one recent example of this, but all of our communication is potentially affected by this posturing.