The Problem with Facebook...

When you're at university Facebook is a great tool. It's nice to have such a simple way to communicate with friends from home. But when it becomes the only way you ever hear from them, or more precisely read about them, then it becomes tiresome.
There are several of my friends from home, and I won't name names, who I don't talk to any more. And this would be fine, it would just be distance getting in the way of friendship and when we did eventually meet up it would be comfortable and straight back to normal for us.
But Facebook ruins this. It's not unreasonable to say that most Facebook activity is boasting or moaning. It's either pictures of you posing a million different ways on a fantastic night out or it's you moaning that your boyfriend didn't buy the right cheese. Or things to that effect. And when this is all you ever see of someone, it can make you dislike them. Your face twists at them complaining about the price of their 5 star holiday, or you build an irrational resentment for the new and exciting things they're doing with no desire to tell you about it.
If it wasn't for Facebook, you wouldn't know about these things until you decided to meet up, have a catch up and fill each other in on all the details. But with Facebook, you can't help but hate the way people only tell you things by telling every online friend the same thing.
I know I'm partly to blame for this happening, I could always talk to them first. But I'm ashamed to say I rarely start a conversation on chat and it's not very often I have anything interesting to post on someone's wall. And yet the resentment for them being the same grows.