I had a student once who wrote that she liked to "collect people." In the 1990s back then, she meant literally. I suppose people can comprise a collection. On Facebook, isn't that exactly what we do? But does a person really have 4000 friends? Perhaps it should be called Namebook? Aside from a handful of real friends, what most folks seem to have accumulated is a pile of names. Something you can get in the thousands if you circulate petitions. Facebook, like Linked-in, has a feature called "People You May Know," wherein a series of profiles appears, not unlike a line-up and you can decide if you know them or would like to. When I see these profile pictures I often see a montage of people who live and continue to live in the corners of my life. If we're not connected by now, there might be a reason. Seldom, if ever, do I contact any of these folks and I doubt if/when I appear on their feed do they contact me. What fascinat...
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