Thread: Quitted facebook (Yay!)
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2011-02-10 , 14:43
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Originally Posted by gilamonyet View Post
Sure, but lets face it. Keeping in contact can't be done alone.
Nothing social can be done alone. Both sides have to be interested, otherwise it doesn't work, no matter which medium you use.

Originally Posted by gilamonyet View Post
Ive had a friend for example who had to leave the country because of his dad.
His dad was very sick, so my friend went there to spend the last few weeks his dad had.
While in that proces we both tried to keep in contact but he had a lot on his mind and the contact slipped away.
Up to this point I can understand your situation. There are always situations that might interfere with your social contacts, but if you really care for those contacts you'll sooner or later reactivate them anyways, at least when your contact data changes.

Originally Posted by gilamonyet View Post
Weeks went past and at some point we both never actually took the step to contact each other again.
Why not? This is what I don't understand.

Originally Posted by gilamonyet View Post
In the end its about how you use something to make it useful or not.
I'm not saying that Facebook is useless. I'm just saying that you don't need it to get in contact with people from your past, because either you still know ho to contact them using other ways or they are people from the past for good reasons.

I'm pretty sure you would have either found a way to contact your friend anyway, or you wouldn't mind if you could not have reestablished the contact. Facebook might have made that easier, but I don't think it was necessary.
I have two friends that I haven't met for years and we don't even speak with each other regularly - just because we have no common topics anymore. All three of us have moved several times since we've been in close contact, but we still know how to contact each other - without facebook or similar means.