answer:A few thoughts, all of which will be long and rambling (sorry). My friend and I tweet several times a day. And by tweet, I don’t mean “hey, everyone, this is what I had for lunch today”, I mean private messages through the Twitter system. It’s awesome, because while both of us aren’t so busy that we don’t have a nice amount of free time, it’s usually not at the same time. Also, Twitter is free, texting is not. So, it allows us to have a lot of small conversations like “remember that convo we had awhile back about what irony is, and I couldn’t explain myself well? Here’s a webcomic saying it a million times better”/“omg, you’re so right! That’s brilliant. I wish he was single, I would totally bone him (the creator)” or talking about how self-involved and hippie-ish her new roommate is. These are the types of conversations that really help a relationship be close and fleshed-out and are the conversations you want (I want, anyway) most of your friendship to be. If we couldn’t use Twitter or IMing, we’d only be able to get together (and thus converse) maybe once every couple of weeks (we both hate talking on the phone), and that would be sad and unawesome. Plus, she’s moving away for a year (internship), so we’re planning on adding Skyping at least once a week, most likely while drinking. I really think that if technology is distancing you instead of bringing you closer, that’s because you aren’t doing it “right”. Which, I mean, not all people are going to do it in a way that brings them closer together, and they don’t want to, and that’s fine. But all of these things are just tools, it’s up to us to figure out how to use them for good or evil. Just like we have to decide if we’re going to use hammers to create a nice coffee table, or to bash our ex’s brains in. It’s all about choices.