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A mother and her daughter face up to Facebook (Christian Science Monitor)

WASHINGTON – According to my daughter Joanna, a college student, the world is divided into three basic categories: friends, “Facebook friends,” and everybody else.

I’m trying to get a handle on this. From what I can tell, Facebook friends are not friends in the same way that her pals are friends. In fact, Facebook might well be changing the nature of relationships, making them both more intrusive and yet somehow less intimate at the same time.