Evolution of social networking

I feel that everybody, and I mean EVERYBODY has a Facebook now and relies on it for just about everything. Social networking has never seemed so popluar as it is today, and I feel that people are becoming less and less social in face to face conversations. When I was younger, the only way of online communicating that i was aware of was AOL instant messenger, Yahoo messenger, and of course e-mail. Eventually it turned to myspace when I was in middle school and in the beginning years of high school. Then Facebook came around and was all the rage. Everybody got a facebook and that was the end of actual live conversation. Even phone calls aren't popluar anymore, everyone just uses text messaging. The most recent of these communicating tools online is Skype, which is the closest to actual conversation, and is actually very useful when communicating with somebody who is not within talking distance. Social networking sites have come a long way in the past decade from email and blogging to video conversations, but I feel that they are taking away peoples' abilities to hold a face-to-face conversation.

http://www.sociableblog.com/2009/05/20/evolution-of-social-networking-sites/