been blocked: a lamentation

I hate the false sense of power the Internet holds over people's relationships. What sort of stance are you taking when you block someone or take them off of your chat list? Does it reassure you that some sort of defiance has been taken to sever ties? And the freaking Facebook--it's such narcissism to think that everyone needs to know what you're thinking or exactly how you feel at a particular moment. Are our own lives that uninteresting, and are we that unfulfilled with what we're actually doing that we need to report on it endlessly through a steady stream of social networking for some public validation? I guess this lamentation in itself is a self-indulgent proclamation on a social networking platform. If you can't beat 'em, join 'em?