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Are you where you wanted to go, or are you where you needed to be?

Are they still the same place?

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I had commented on a friend's FB entry:

It started with:
B: Is pondering the increasing virtual exhibitionism in online fora.

B: I'm persona non grata there for life - I was rather observing a new trendy trend of people having to tell 25 facts or so about themselves ... ;-)

Me: My thought on this lately is that we are teaching ourselves not to have time for each other in person. The online gaming started all this, but was not personal enough. Then myspace shows up and now facebook and others became away to have a virtual social life. You learn more about a person face2face in 5 seconds. The 25 facts that others want to share just makes you feel closer to that person, that you might have gotten in that 5 second face2face you're chatting with. .... I think I am just rambling here.

ToMe: Not that I know anything at all about you but it sounds like you're getting old :-) Seriously, I agree with your points. Facebook, MySpace, etc., seem to be a huge outlet for narcisism . . .

Me: I am getting older with young kids :-) . But I would not put this in the category of narcissism. I don't think sharing the "25 things about me" is about promoting self love. I just think these social websites remove the face to face(F2F) contact we use to have before the social online networks. So the only way to get some of that back is to share ourselves with the "25 things about me" postings. otherwise how do i get to know more about you without the F2F. With that said, these social online networks do allow the shy to be more open....

Any thoughts here?