I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

Social media and the Internet haven't changed our capacity for social interaction any more than the Internet has changed our ability to be in love or our basic propensity to violence, because those are such fundamental human attributes.

It used to be thought that our genes were historically immutable and that it was not possible to imagine a conversation between culture and genetics.

We cannot understand our humanity just by studying individuals.

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.

I like to have met someone in real life before being their Facebook friend.

What constrains or enables the capacity of human beings to work in groups is not so much the technology, but rather the capacity of the human brain to have and monitor social interactions.