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I don't add my mentor in facebook, and this is why

I just had a two-hour restless coffee chat with one of my former supervisors. Even though we have always considered each other as friends, I haven't, up to this point, added her Facebook, and I am glad I haven't done so. We keep in touch through short emails, and so to make up for the whole year apart, we get to talking, sharing, and re-connecting our life stories this afternoon.

The rise of social networks seems to facilitate human connection. By just scrolling the screen, we could easily see what happens in a person's life without even bother asking. We, however, most of the time, forget the fact that Facebook is just a mean of public broadcasting, and what goes here doesn't necessarily reflect the whole story. You see people smiling in pictures. What you don't see in the pain they go through. You hear people announcing their great news. What you don't know is the price they have to pay. "Likes" and "comments" are considered indicators of sympathy, but that sympathy only stays in its narrowest surface.