Social Networks - Facebook & More

Yeah, so I've been a member of Facebook for how long now? Well, probably only a year. But, I've been on Myspace and other sites for alot longer. It's kind of cool to be able to meet people I haven't seen since preschool or other characters from the murkier recesses of my past that I had hoped never to come in contact with again. But, I don't know, there's something impersonal about the virtual relationships these social networking sites tend to foster. People can create whatever image of themselves that they want the world to perceive. And, yeah, I used to get envious of all the "popular" people with their billions of friends mirthfully lobbing raccoons and unicorns at each other. But then I just got tired of it all... it's too much info... white noise even... You know, those people may have a billion online friends, but what is gained from spending every waking moment plugged into the computer incessantly constructing and enhancing their virtual faces to the world? Do we sometimes get so lost in the making of our lives to attract others, that we forget to live? Anyway... please forgive my philosophical banter. I'm not so much the suspicious Luddite I seem to be, or maybe I'm lying. How would you know?