This Week's Sign That The Muchacolypse is Upon Me

I've concluded that online social networks are the cloud computing version of friends, i.e. virtualized versions of prior generation social contacts, where you fulfill 80% of your need for friends with abstract slices of a vaguely-understood cloud of peopletime. Not that there's anything wrong with that. Bowling night changes, sure, as the beer isn't as tasty. But the music is better.