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It started with xanga.  Then there was myspace.  Now there is facebook.  These are all methods of networking online with other people.  Networking seems to be the popular word nowadays.  Everyone is busy trying to network as much as possible.  Meet as many people as possible.  Today, networking is a necessity rather than an option.  Would you like a job as a high school kid?  It will take you weeks of searching and applying before you can get one.  The story is obviously different if your parent's friend owns a restaurant.  As a graduating senior, many people are networking busily even before they ever set foot on the campus.  It only gets better/worse as you grow older.  I guess it's been this way since a long time ago; people skills are a necessity in a world we live in.  However, I can't help but to think about what "networking" really is.  It seems as though networking is making acquiantances with people who you think will benefit you one way or another in the long run.  It's knowing people in the right places so that you can get what you want out of them.  World is so set upon success that networking becomes the principal type of relationship one makes.  Granted networking is necessary and healthy social act, what happened to good old friendships?  I look around myself personally, and real friends are hard to find.  There are a lot of acquiantances, but not necessarily friends.  Often, there are agendas behind relationships we make, and in some cynical way, I guess that's what networking is these days.  However, networking is tiresome.  Always surrounded by people but feeling insecure, paranoid... it's a physical and emotional drain.  Maybe people should take some time to make friends too, for everyone's sake.