facebook make nicey? not so much.

After reading the article about facebook, I do not think that facebook is making people more kind towards each other. Rather, I feel that facebook is making young people more socially aware of each other. Almost in a way, I feel that facebook is making my generation more socially awkward. For example, as mention in the article, the author when contacted one of his random friends, he did not even ask how she was due to his previous knowledge from her newsfeed. Because of things like newsfeeds, instead of mustering up the courage to ask someone that lives on your hall how they are today because you dont know them very well, an individual can more easily just look at their facebook and find out that way. In essence, we are all turning into hermits, too scared to actually open up our mouths and actually socially interact with others face to face and would rather stare are a computer screen patiently waiting for our minifeeds to reload and update us on our old high school friends as well as random people that we met at a party last friday.