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Re: “700 friends — and I’m drinking ALONE — Just another Facebook in the crowd, says Hal Niedzviecki,” Sunday Points. Maybe Mr. Niedzviecki was right. Maybe his Facebook friends were too busy to meet up for his Facebook party. If only they would get off Facebook! As a 19-year-old college student, I find Facebook is great for keeping in touch with old high school buddies and relatives, but it replaces face-to-face coffee shop-style conversations with those Facebook “friends” just a few minutes away. This relatively new virtual communication frenzy is imposing on natural human interaction. Who is to say avid Facebook users could make decent, in-person conversation without the safety of the usual bumper time between instant messages, comment postings and such? For this generation, Facebook is the new hangout spot. We can have great online relationships, but come time for face-to-face encounter, we are awkward and lack conversational abilities. (I’ve experienced it.) So maybe Mr. Niedzviecki would have been more successful with his Facebook party if it didn’t require the friends to leave their computer chairs.

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… and log some face time You can’t be friends with a computer screen. Millions use Facebook and other social networks simply as means of strengthening and maintaining their many and varied relationships. But the key is also maintaining the human aspect of friendship by dispatching the keyboard and talking face-to-face once in a while. The Internet has great potential for connecting people, but you are responsible for making your own real friends. Chris Stimpson, 17, senior from Rowlett,

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