Is the anybody out there?

So what's the deal with Myspace and Friendster? I joined both groups within the last six months and have successfully found a handful of people with whom I had lost contact. And I question now, well, what's the point of these programs? I mean, I found these friends, contacted them, and most responses just ended up as me being added as their "friend" and vice versa. No real rekindling of old friendships.

So what I want to know, in some way, are these services messing up with our soul circles? If the people in our lives come and go or stay at the appropriate interval for which our souls were meant to connect (i.e. just chatting in Social Studies or forming a life-long bond), now that we have found the internet and are reaching out (and working hard to doing so) to find old friends, are we sending some sort of ripple out into the universe? Something that potential throws off our original life paths? Are we really meant to reconnect with the friend who ditched us for someone more popular in junior high? And why would we want to?

So why do I keep checking my messages like some sort of crazed person to see if anyone wrote me?