[jamesbkel]

FTA >“I knew all these things about her, but I’d never even talked to her,” said Mr. Balcomb, a pre-med student in Oregon who had some real-life friends in common with the woman. “At that point I thought, maybe this is a little unhealthy.”

I agree with this, but I think it says more about how one USES Facebook. I use it for organizing events and as a digital replacement for a rolodex. If I wasted my time flipping through a rolodex, learning details about people who were only acquaintances, I would consider that unhealthy too.

[dwiel]

One is designed to grab and keep your attention for as long as possible. One is designed to make it easy to keep track of contacts.

[chenga]

I think that's an unfair statement though because Facebook can do a lot more than a Rolodex. I think we need to know more about how people spend their time on Facebook.

If they're spending time on games like Farmville, that's quite different from spending time looking at photos/profiles/statuses