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[00:00.37] Alex: Hi, Katia, how are you?

[00:02.12] Katia: I'm doing good and you, Alex?

[00:04.12] Alex: I'm doing good thank you. I have a question for you. Are you on Facebook?

[00:07.63] Katia: Yes, I am on Facebook but I really do not check very often.

[00:12.12] Alex: OK, how often do you check it usually?

[00:14.87] Katia: I actually try not to check it very often. It's been taking a lot of my time so right now I check it about, I try once a week during the weekends.

[00:25.37] Alex: OK. I used to be on Facebook a lot before. I was like checking it every day and, you know, posting on my friends' walls and trying to catch up with everybody on Facebook.

[00:37.37] But then I realized that I was losing a lot of time on it.

[00:40.87] I was, I don't know if investing is the word, but I was spending a lot of time on it and I kind of like decided to close my wall, because I thought that I was just spending too much time, and it was not really adding anything so, but I don't know if that's the right thing, because sometimes I feel that I need to communicate stuff to my friends and since my wall has been closed for so long,

[01:04.37] I don't want to kind of like just communicate something there and then just stopped communicating through my wall any more so I don't know how to do it.

[01:14.12] Katia: It has really become an issue hasn't it? You can get lost from what is actually happening around you and live in a virtual world so I'm actually a little bit worried about that, about what is happening and how we live our lives and how we present ourselves to others.

[01:31.12] I believe that it should be handled differently than it has up to now so maybe you're doing good by closing or, you know, thinking about it at least.

[01:43.12] Alex: Yeah.

[01:44.12] Katia: But how much, that you might have to consider.

[01:47.12] Alex: Yeah, that's right. It's very funny how all this communication has changed in the last few years.

[01:56.12] I remember just four years ago or even five years ago I wasn't on Facebook and all the communication I used to have with my friends was through email or by phone or by meeting you know.

[02:05.62] But now with Facebook, everybody spends so much time on Facebook. Sometimes if you don't publish something on Facebook, it seems that you didn't do anything so I don't know it's just weird.

[02:14.87] Katia: Well the question is are you actually more in communication now than you were four or five years ago?

[02:21.87] Alex: I am more in communication with people that I haven't been in touch with for the last ten years let's say.

[02:29.87] Like all my friends from elementary school that I wasn't really in touch and everybody's now on Facebook and now everybody is updated on what I'm doing or why I do this, what I'm going to do on next vacation, what about my plans for anything so that's a good thing I think. It really depends on how much importance you give to it.

[02:50.62] Katia: That is true.