NEW YORK—A woman I haven't spoken to in six years is pregnant with her second son. Another college acquaintance reads the Bible a lot. A high school classmate likes to rant about politics. A college dormmate thinks he works too much. On Facebook, I'm connected to a lot of people who are not my friends. Over the years, as my Facebook friend list grows, it's made me increasingly uncomfortable that I seem to know so much about people that I don't actually know. So as the new year approached, I decided to review my Facebook life. I took a four-week break—a "Facebook Fast"—from the world's biggest online social network. The break this fall spanned the presi...
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