[oblique63]

> The author's argument seems to be "facebook is not a substitute for real social interaction", to which I can only say "duh!". I don't know a single person making that claim.

I don't think you have to make that claim explicitly to believe it or act on it at some level.

For example, how many times have you ever thought about calling a person, then decided it wasn't really that important so you just facebook/text/email/tweet them instead? Eventually, I would think you stop having that debate altogether and short-circuit the process to just messaging them through some asynchronous medium directly. Nobody would ever argue that it's the same thing, but the habit forms and inertia builds until eventually one method of communication has effectively supplanted the other. It would be so gradual you probably wouldn't notice such a paradigm shift in your life until you explicitly thought about it (possibly after seeing some of its after-effects). I could see that happening...

[tekalon]

I would agree with this. I don't like phones and wish everyone would just text/email/facebook any communications. At the same time, because of this, I also don't feel the need to go out or socialize face to face as much.