Sometimes with all these modes of communication- text, social networks, ims, etc- it surprises me how superficial relationships have become.

With every friend added to my facebook 'friends' list, the significance of friendship diminishes to almost nothing. And sometimes it becomes hard distinguishing my real friends from my 'facebook friends'.

I mean when were there more than one definition for the word friend?

It's true. Do I really have over 1000 friends? I personally don't like to add anyone that I do not know, but with my social, professional, ecclesiastical, and family ties, the people I know and have met do add up to 1000 + . But within that 1000+ friends, how many are really considered my friends? How many do I confide in, talk to, and meet up with on a daily basis?

I hear people say all the time, ' Oh we're not really friends. We're friends on facebook, but we're not like friends friends. '

Honestly, what does all of that really mean?

I think our easy access to other people's lives have made relationships with one other superficial. We see the pictures, we read the comments, we like the status updates. But is what we see, really what we get? What happened to deep conversations and actually getting to know someone beyond their facebook homepage? What happened to 'let's hang out' and actually doing it?

What happened... to us?