The Path - Spiritual Facebook-Ing?

I was pointed to this article on the BBC: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-11793847

The stance is that rather than bring lots together with lots of weak ties (read: friends inwards scream only), the site helps y'all foster stronger friendship ties. These ties are designed into the organization past times limiting the release of friends y'all tin laissez passer the axe have. I retrieve it's similar to going dorsum inwards fourth dimension to cinema cameras, earlier digital: You actually had to alternative your moments, non waste matter the film. When digital came along, y'all could snap equally many crap pictures equally y'all liked, because they didn't terms anything to throw away. But is this a skillful model for friendships? Is this a fair comparing to Facebook?

There is some bear witness - cited past times the article - that humans tin laissez passer the axe alone contend fifty friends, then the notion that Facebook promotes, that nosotros tin laissez passer the axe bring 1,000 if nosotros wanted, cheapens the real give-and-take "friend".

I retrieve if nosotros value truthful "friendship", nosotros ought to last thinking of ways to brand that give-and-take meaningful over again inwards the era of Facebook. People inquire me all the fourth dimension what I hateful past times "spiritual technology", together with follow upwardly with, "Can y'all laissez passer me an instance of one?" I immediately bring an example. This is getting closer to what I'm talking about: Asserting human values over together with higher upwardly technological capabilities.