[quickben]

Not going into the 'social media' argument, but I don't think I can have a friend like that.

As I've gotten older, my tolerance for bullshit diminished. You don't have to be friend with everybody. If people are substantially different than you, chances are high you can't be best friends.

Writing messages through pigeon carriers may be entertaining for few days, but all of my friends are accessible through phone or email.

[yladiz]

I am in my mid 20s, and while I don't think social media like Facebook is irreplaceable, it's damn near that because, without arguing semantics about the word friend, I have friends from all over the world (and even within the same country) who I want to keep in touch with or at least send the occasional, "Hey, how have you been?" Even more importantly, if I end up traveling, it's very easy to keep in touch with them whereas using email is not because they probably get too many emails a day and my email might fall by the wayside and phone is not possible. Beyond this, people change emails and phone numbers all the time, whereas their social media presence doesn't really change all that much.

[quickben]

Aquitances :) and yes, I also have FB for people all over the planet.

I was just saying more on how we choose who we give our time to, rather than the medium.

As for Facebook/Gmail etc. They are fine tools for now, as all other software companies, they'll be gone one day.

Facebook probably faster than Google as it will be turning into a graveyard network at some point.