The Death of Association Life

Facebook and its ilk create social networks that are huge, but weak. With 900 million active users, nine times the number four years ago. Could i have cleared the beach by poking my facebook friends or creating a new facebook group? I doubt it. It is not technology that has hollowed out civil society - it is something tockville himself anticipated in what is perhaps the most powerful passage in the whole of democracy in America. To see just how right that wise old frenchman was, ask yourself, how many clubs do you belong to?