Hal Niedzviecki's article"Facebook in a Crowd" brings up a good a point about friends that people have on Facebook. He talks about how he felt that he needed to hangout and meet some of his Facebook friends so he sent out a party invite to all of his friends. Most of them said they would be going and when came to the day of the party only one person showed up. I think it shows how there is a huge difference between friends on Facebook and friends in real life. I know for a fact a good portion of my friends on Facebook are either relatives or high school classmates that I keep in contact with, but there are only a handful of people that I talk in my daily life that I'm friends with on Facebook. I know that if I created a Facebook event I would not have any disillusionment about who would show and not show to the event. I think that the event feature on Facebook is a good one especially for small businesses to use like Black Forest here in town is always having something going on or El Palacio's in my hometown having a special on their drinks for the end of the world. I think that the author was being a little melodramatic at the end of the article when he says that hes all alone drinking beer by himself even though he has seven hundred friends. I feel that anyone with any kind of social skills can find someone to go drinking with at the bar or to hangout with. Finally I just think some of us buy way to much into Facebook and it can be harmful to the social skills of kids today.
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