https://pjmedia.com/richardfernandez/2009/06/01/the-perils-of-facebook/feed/PJ Media is a leading news site covering culture, politics, faith, homeland security, and more. Our reporters and columnists provide original, in-depth analysis from a variety of perspectives.en-usFri, 12 Jun 2026 08:25:26 -0400<![CDATA[One of the most interesting things about the Facebook social networking system is that you can traverse the nodes. It works this way. Everyone on Facebook has friends and those friends have more friends. By working your way through friends of friends you can sometimes loop around and find your way back to a familiar cluster, in a manner akin to circling around. Occasionally you&#8217;ll go down sidetrails and explore the outworkings of a forest of connections. But that&#8217;s tiresome and occasionally you will attempt to jump into a wholly different cluster of people based on a clue, like the fragment of name or perhaps an email address and find a thread back into a world you&#8217;d left.]]>Mon, 01 Jun 2009 06:17:37 -0400<![CDATA[Richard Fernandez]]>https://pjmedia.com/richard-fernandez/2009/06/01/the-perils-of-facebook-n188383