Friending, Ancient or Otherwise  —  THE growing popularity of social networking sites like Facebook, MySpace and Second Life has thrust many of us into a new world where we make “friends” with people we barely know, scrawl messages on each other’s walls and project our identities using totem-like visual symbols.

Source:   New York Times

Author:   Alex Wright

Link:   http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/weekinreview…