Consequences of Online Social Networking

To me this article was very interesting and also helped me as a reader learn some new information. It really helped me look a lot more into social networking as a whole, and what the relationship between social networking and real life social networking. For myself, I know that a lot of my friends tend to add people, in hopes of meeting them, I myself dont do that at all, but it was very interesting to read that people are attempting to get to know others within their own social networks, but I find it that many users do what I call, "The Random Add".  For my personal use of facebook, I really use it to keep in contact with a lot of people that were from my past or future that I wouldnt talk to on a daily, weekly, or maybe monthly basis in person or over the phone. As most users these days they keep their profile private, as I do, for me thats because you dont want people snooping around and finding out things about you. But with that being said, once you become a friend my profile tells a lot about me, and when I add people with the intention of them knowing this already so I dont really worry about that being something I wouldnt want them to know. I think that many people use a lot of these Online Social Networks for the same reason as I, but as we all know there is so many other aspects, (work, marketing..) and people can really use them to help out. With this all being said I think that online social networks can really help a lot of people keep contact with others, but nothing is better than a face to face interaction in my book.