Social Networking....Good, Bad, or Undecided.

I have been spending a lot of free time social networking. Mostly it has been on Facebook, but am also on MySpace and Twitter. Now my issue is two-sided. It's great to connect to old friends in a manner I can follow without having to talk to them directly, but it is also a bad thing. In my case it is great. I love seeing what old friends are doing, but am not close enough to some of them to just call them up and chat, but I also think it is a situation that is make us less personable as a society. We keep up with each other electronically and don't feel we need to really communicate with others, even those closet to us. So, you be the judge. It works for me, but as a whole it could be the downfall of our people socially.