The Facebook Road Trip: "People Aren't a Series of Updates" [VIDEO]

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The pair traveled over 1800 miles in less than a week to literally and physically traverse Graham's Facebook social graph. They met up with an assortment of present and past friends and acquaintances, some unseen for 15 years, to explore how the social networking medium affects our social interactions.

There was a "strange emotion that developed as we met up with friends we'd made over an entire lifetime, compacted into less than a week." The video explores some of the awkwardness mixed with re-connection and emotion that characterized the trip. They even delivered what may be the world's first analog Facebook message.

"Before Facebook they were friends that were starting to fall to acquaintances and acquaintances that were starting to fall to strangers. But when I reconnect with them they start to become a little bit more.

This trip has really led me to see that these people I've lost contact with aren't a series of updates and bits of information on a computer. They're actually people living their lives.

I recommend anyone take a social network road trip."

Check out the video below. Have you ever taken, or thought about taking, a social network road trip?