In the age of twitter and facebook some things are decided otherwise

Friends are now so easily measured and lost in the same day. A social norm has been broken. What defines a friend? Just because I know you does not define you as a friend. Yet the internet is littered with this thought. Friends are not bits and bytes to me. Friends are interpersonal relationships that exist in the truest of forms. Are we so separated from conversation that I get a text message explaining that a raccoon is in the chimney? Talk to me, don't write me an instant letter and then call me a friend for doing so. Call me old fashioned, but I believe a voice is a better way to communicate than a key stroke.