Is Facebook Making Us Lonely? - A Response

The article "Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?" talks about the fakeness of Facebook, having a ton of friends, but not actually knowing many of them, and how it can affect a person's psychological loneliness. It spoke to me on quite a few levels. Having been through long-distance relationships in the past, often Facebook is all you have when that person far away is unavailable to text you or doesn't feel like talking with you at that point in time. Depending on the online interactivity of both parties and how much they post about you or the both of you, it can be a blessing; the moments they've shared with you and have recorded via pictures or statuses have been locked in their timeline. This can be a blessing and a curse; when the times are good, you can always look at the albums of whatever date or outing you took them on nd rejoice in your companionship. In bad times, it can be a teasing hell, that if you look at the photos amidst a nasty fight or tough time the photos of once were can be extremely painful with the possibility that there might not be another time or event where you can create more memories with that person.
When the article discusses feelings of isolation, it refers to modern and developing technologies all as ways to decrease those feelings and have us be able to contact a person at any time. This is true, as texting and calling and sending photos to another can all be done anytime anywhere, but on Facebook the photos and statuses are permanent unless removed by the user. If in a squabble, ambiguous statuses or the posting of song lyrics with the intent of that person hurting you (because you know it's relating to something recent with you) can be extremely hurtful and cause a pain that stays with you for days.
You can fight these negative statuses by posting your own song lyrics, or linking to videos with blurbs above them making you seem like you're in a good mood and unaffected by them, or even post happy statuses that are free from having to do with said fights, but it can be exhausting. In my personal experience I've blocked people in the past to prevent any feelings of pain from their vicious statuses or have simply suspended my account alltogether so I wouldn't be even tempted to look at past photos or read what they're up to at that point in time.
Facebook can be an extremely positive place where you can catch up with your friends and see what's going on in your social world, or it can quickly become a dramatic hell as your tear-filled eyes are glued to the screen waiting to see what your person of interest can do next to hurt you. It can either aid loneliness if used healthfully or contribute to it if used recklessly and as a means to mess with someone.
Rather dark subject matter, but just some thoughts that the article started turning in my head. It's the most interesting of the articles from the course so far to me.