Facebook in a Crowd

Facebook in a crowd is about Hal Neidzviecki who had lost touch of his real social life, except for on social web-sites like facebook where he had over 700 "friends", he decided to do an 'experiment' and made a facebook invite to meet him. Neidzviecki had 15+ say they were coming and 60+ that said they were maybe coming. Only one person showed up the night of his party.

This article shows me that social networking is taking away actually interacting with people, instead of a phone call we can message on facebook or text, instead of actually meeting people we can Skype. Although facebook is a good way to keep in touch with old friends, when you use it as your only way of communication (besides texting), it can cause problems, like loneliness and boredom. Neidzviecki made that very mistake, and when it came down to actually interacting with people, one person decided to go, out of the 700+ invites he sent out. I think people would rather not deal with each other, why put the energy into getting ready to go somewhere when you could just sit at home on your computer. It’s understandable why people are so attached to facebook, America is lazy and that’s just one more way to ‘make life easier’, though in the long run it’s making it worse.