"When I think about my friends, what makes them who they are, and why I love them, it is not the names of their siblings that come to mind, or their fear of spiders. It is their qualities of character. This one's emotional generosity, that one's moral seriousness, the dark humour of a third. Yet even those are just descriptions, and no more specify the individuals uniquely than to say that one has red hair, another is tall. To understand what they really look like, you would have to see a picture. To understand who they really are, you would have to hear about the things they've done. Character, revealed through action: the two eternal elements of narrative. In order to know people, you have to listen to their stories. But that is precisely what the Facebook page does not have room for, or 500 friends, time for." -Faux Friendship by William Deresiewicz, The Chronicle of Higher Education (6 December 2009)



In a way this is so true, but it needs update. I guess that's what the Facebook timeline is for? To tell stories?
The point is, I miss my dear friends. A lot.