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The two articles I found most interesting and relevant were "How Your Creepy Ex-Coworkers Will Kill Facebook" and "The Autumn of Multitaskers." I think it's true that the trend in the expansion of social networking through the internet has altered the way friendships/relationships work in the "real world." I hadn't really thought about why it is we jump from service to service, I kind of just figured it was because there was a new and "improved" way to be even more connected with even more people that we switched. But in a way I guess eventually Facebook will have to die out and be replaced by a new service; not just because it's more "superior" to the former service, but also because, as the article explains, being connected to people that you normally wouldn't be in the real world can create awkward and unneccessary situations. At the same time however, it can put people back in contact and has a lot of positives to it. Although Facebook itself won't necessarily "take over the internet," now that social networking sites online have been established, they will only get upgraded and improved, so they will never go away. Aside from these social networks, as a big fan of multitasking myself, I understand the concerns over the negative affects it has, but I think everyone is prone to it in one way or another, and it can at the same time be very effective. With the expansion of the use of the internet and technology, it seems fit that one of the definitions given for multitasking is a way for people to act like computers, often using computers. The term still existed before computers were around, but now its been changed to fit how we interact with new information and technology.