There's been a lot of buzz about the book, Alone Together: Why We Expect More from Technology and Less from Each Other, which explores the idea that teenagers feel inferior by the airbrushed images of friends on Facebook. Everybody seems to be having more fun than they are. Libby Copeland in Slate discusses other research on this topic.

Most of my friends use Facebook very lightly as a way to distribute photos of kids, announce a big snowfall, or pass around a really cool link. I've been logging on less and less in recent months, because there's less to read.

I also have some control over fakery on Facebook. For no particular reason, I've decided that Twitter is for work and Facebook is for friends. I don't mind career bragging on Twitter, but it bugs the crap out of me on Facebook. If someone starts bragging about their careers too much on Facebook, I put them in the paddy wagon for a month and secretly block their posts from my newsfeed.

So, my Facebook friends don't make me feel inferior. That's what the Style Section of the New York Times is for. Here's another hipster hotel that I'll probably never visit.