The social networking experience

I still remember it was just a chance meeting with one of my school friends whom i met around 6 years after my school. He introduced me to this whole new social world Orkut where I could catch up with my other school friends. This was a super exciting idea for me. For when i had left Nanded i didnt even have the time to wish goodbye to any of my friends barring a few. Nostalgia got better of me and one by one i found many of friends in Orkut. It felt really nice to get to know how they look after all those years . But just consider this, In real life when you meet someone after many years can you really rekindle the same relationship you once shared.Its really not possible everytime because you and that person have totally moved on,grown up and now you actually dont even know him/her. The circumstances might have changed him/her into a totally different being from what you might have known him/her to be.You really have nothing to talk about and are at loss of words and really never know how much to share. It actually feels painful to look at all my friends profile with whom i had shared a lot of my time and now feel a total stranger. And on a social networking site , you dont even get to see the expressions of the person you are communicating with. Its quite a mad world i feel where you just keep on adding people to your friend's list and never actually mean it. I would never make a friend like that just for the heck of it. For me its precious. Its just one of those modern shallow feel good meaningless activities we spend a lot of time doing . And yet i dont know how to get rid of this addiction.Maybe one of these days i will.