Social Media is making us Anti-Social

I know I'm not alone out there in my thoughts about this.  Whether we want to admit it or not our society of social media has made us into anti social human beings.  I remember being in high school and when we liked a boy we would let them know through phone calls, and notes and good old fashioned instant messaging, lol, oh yes I went there.  When we were bored we would invite our friends to come over and spend the night and go out and do something fun.  Its only been 10 years since high school for me, so not that long ago.  Now it seems like everything is done through text messages and Facebook.  Guys are no longer brave enough to just call a girl he likes, he wants to do it via text or Facebook.  I think its really sad that teenage girls today won't know what it was like back when I was in high school and having those butterfly feelings of having that older high school boy calling you on your private landline phone.  Even as an adult I think we are lacking and have fallen into the traps of social media, allowing us to forget how to normally socially interact with one another.  Oh you want to go out to dinner tonight, send me a text asking me..... Oh you are feeling down in the dumps lets talk about it.... though text.  Seriously!!! We love the social media such as Facebook because it lets us all know whats going on your lives and who's having a baby, who's getting married or divorced.  But honestly, if we have to find these things out through Facebook are we really their friends? When something really important happened to me I would pick up the phone and CALL my friends so that we could gab for hours.  It was and is so much more intimate.  Don't think for one minute Im only pointing the finger at others because I'm guilty as well.  I have people on my Facebook from high school that I haven't seen since high school.  While its nice to 'spy' and see what they are doing with their lives, I don't need to know everything about them if we haven't spoken in 10 years.  There's probably a good reason we didn't stay in touch.  If we wanted to connect we should or could have exchanged numbers and got together.  I don't want people who I rarely knew in high school knowing intimate details about my life. They shouldn't have the access.  Facebook isn't all bad.  Its a great way to share pictures of the kids with family and close friends.  I have such a desire to get off of Facebook and just stick to blogging.  People who want to read my blog can, but I know the majority of my Facebook peeps won't follow me and thats fine.  That weeds out the people who really care with the ones who just have me on their Facebook for the number of friends.  Im not quite there yet but one day,  IT'S HAPPENING!!  I feel like once we make the leap of moving, whenever that maybe (thanks medical bills and student loans), My family and I are going to do things a lot differently.  Washing our hands, getting a clean start.  Going back to the basics and enjoying life (in person) with the people who really matter to us.  Breaking free of technology addiction.  Facebook is like a drug for me.  I know its mostly not beneficial for me but it is a great way to stay in touch with the ones I'm really friends with.  All am saying is....If you didn't have Facebook to keep in touch, how many friends would you really have and how many of those people would consider you their friend?  Think about how you treat your friends and how nice it would be to go back to having that intimacy.  We all need to force ourselves to get better at knowing people, really knowing them.  Where did you grow up? How did you and your husband meet? Whats your favorite color?  May seem petty, but its those little things that help us connect with other people.  I think our society is desperately in need of social interaction minus the technology part.