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Are we losing the essence of communication? In the world of high tech communication devices, of constant connectivity regardless of time zone and traditional nation states, how disconnected are we really?

Keeping in touch has never been so easy. Gone are the days of choosing the right paper if you were to write long letters to friends, the pain on your wrist that comes from writing lines lines of update that will only be outdated by the time it reached the recipient. Phone calls are often substituted by text messages. International phone calls are slowly making ways for VOIP. Social networking sites such as facebook, myspace, friendster and the likes are connecting the people dots in your life.

These days, it is considered sufficient to read the status line on facebook to think that you know what's going on with that person. One sentence is all it takes to make people ignore or contact you. I found it rather disturbing when your attempt of personal connection with someone is decided by one-liners from a social networking site. Are these technological conveniences promoting laziness, and undermining the whole point of being connected at all?