Twitter the worlds leading Killer

So a few weeks ago, our Worship Pastor at Marathon Greenville, introduced me to Twitter, an online website used to keep up with what your friends are doing. I thought it was really neat, and so i began to use it. Then, in all its newness and my glee, i began to receive updates to my phone and really be able to follow people. Text messages would pour in moment after moment according to what friends were doing. Then i stopped. And realized. Something very important. While there is nothing wrong with this website, other than it is consuming my time, cultural websites for keeping in touch with people are probably damaging relationships. Facebook, Myspace, and Twitter, may be great to keep up with old friends, or talking with people you don't really know well, but while it may bring those people seemingly closer, it pushes other away. Those close to you, you then talk to mainly on facebook, or twitter, and never actually visit or make a phone call to see what their doing. It puts all people at a distance. The distance of the Internet, however close or far you consider that. Its interesting the direction our culture is traveling with more intimacy in bed being encouraged for singles, and less real life conversation for real people being required in the "in" crowd.