Well according to this NYT article, Virginia Heffman reports that Bruce Sterling suggests it's because we're poor. "Only the poor — defined broadly as those without better options — are obsessed with their connections. Anyone with a strong soul or a fat wallet turns his ringer off for good and cultivates private gardens that keep the hectic Web far away. The man of leisure, Sterling suggested, savors solitude, or intimacy with friends, presumably surrounded by books and film and paintings and wine and vinyl — original things that stay where they are and cannot be copied and corrupted and shot around the globe with a few clicks of a keyboard."
Heffman questions the constant tallying of friends on Facebook. Are we substituting our official lack of wealth with a wealth of friends, who as Heffman points out are more liabilities than assets? What are 586 friends? How many of those can be counted on in an emergency situation?
-to be continued-
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