Can you live without a networking site?

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I had a facebook, friendster and multiply account. But a spammer got into my mail and started spamming all my friends, he even changed my passwords (NOTE: never have the same loggin and password for all your accounts, once they get one, they get all the rest!) I use to spend every spare minute checking my networks, whos online, whos not. Whats new, whats hot. What are the new games, what are the new topics. And I could have spent hours upon hours on these sites, just browsing, chatting and "networking". But now i had all my accounts deleted. All gone, not one left. At first i felt kindda naked, not having any networking sites, not knowing where i would find my friends again, or any of the other networks that I had spent years developing. From relatives, to classmates from elementary, to high school, college and my officemates from the previous offices. 1000's of contacts gone in one day. 100's of hours worth of "work" networking gone in one day.... I felt alone, i felt secluded, i felt "out" of the circle but after about 3 weeks of not having it, it doesn't feel so bad... i guess.... could you live without your networks?