What is the Social in Social Media Response

"We can put such considerations into a larger, strategic context that the “social media question” poses. Do all these neatly administrated contacts and address books at some point spill over and leave the virtual realm, as the popularity of dating sites seems to suggest? Do we only share information, experiences, and emotions, or do we also conspire, as “social swarms,” to raid reality in order to create so-called real-world events? Will contacts mutate into comrades? It seems that social media solves the organizational problems that the suburban baby-boom generation faced fifty years ago: boredom, isolation, depression, and desire."

These few questions pose a threat to everything that prior generations based their lives off of before now.  There has been a complete 180 degree flip in how people interact.  At some point, in certain situations, these social interactions leave the virtual realm but what is the ratio of those who know all of their facebook friends in real life before adding them compared to meeting online.  The social etiquette to me for adding friends is to meet them in person, either a short meeting or an evening together and wait a day or two before adding them.  People don't want to seem too eager to become facebook friends.  They also don't want to be the first one to suggest being friends on facebook.  Most of my social group uses facebook and other social media websites to ENHANCE their social interaction rather than INITIATING it.