The internet has always held a certain intrigue for me in the way websites both growing and abandoned exist side-by-side, allowing it to be instantly both a market and a museum. One click, and you are in center-stage; another, you're in a ghost-town. It has been so from the time of Geocities, up to the time of blogger. But Facebook is the first site that recolored that landscape for me - it does essentially the same, except what it does it to is not places, but people.

As Facebook plays a bigger part in our social lives, sooner or later we have messages that will never get replied, pokes that will not be returned, and friend requests that cannot be accepted, not because someone isn't approving of us, but because someone just isn't there anymore.

Just as the internet has abstracted physical distances but not excused us from the realities of energy consumption, I cannot say if Facebook has de-anthropomorphized death, or made it more personal.