Facebook "Friends"
Whenever I log into facebook I see status updates of basically strangers, and friend requests from other people I never talk to. Sure, we went to the same grammar school, but did I ever talk to you? Oh your the guy that was at that crazy party last weekend right? You work with my best friend and we all hung out once, so I guess that means we have to be facebook friends? I just checked to see I have 311 friends which include people who I:
-went to grammar school with and never spoke to after graduation, or even when we did go to school together
-met at parties or hanging out or whatever it was, see them regularly at different things, but we don't talk
-go to school with, we see each other in the halls, but we've never spoken a word to each other
-played sports with as a kid, went to girl scouts with, etc., and never spoke to each other again
And sure, a lot of them are good friends and family members that I actually talk to. But if I deleted the people I mentioned above, I would probably have about 50 friends. The thing is though, I would hate to delete these people because some of them are fun to creep on every once in awhile, and don't go saying I'm a weirdo now, because I know you all have a little bit of facebook-creeper in you (except for, of course, those of you that aren't on facebook). And I know if I deleted these people, the next day I'd be like, oh man, I can't creep his pictures anymore! But then again, I could be doing a lot better things when I'm bored.
-went to grammar school with and never spoke to after graduation, or even when we did go to school together
-met at parties or hanging out or whatever it was, see them regularly at different things, but we don't talk
-go to school with, we see each other in the halls, but we've never spoken a word to each other
-played sports with as a kid, went to girl scouts with, etc., and never spoke to each other again
And sure, a lot of them are good friends and family members that I actually talk to. But if I deleted the people I mentioned above, I would probably have about 50 friends. The thing is though, I would hate to delete these people because some of them are fun to creep on every once in awhile, and don't go saying I'm a weirdo now, because I know you all have a little bit of facebook-creeper in you (except for, of course, those of you that aren't on facebook). And I know if I deleted these people, the next day I'd be like, oh man, I can't creep his pictures anymore! But then again, I could be doing a lot better things when I'm bored.
Thos are the exact reasons I have 50 contacts on MSN. LOL! (including myself) (is that sad? LOL)
I have about 100 friends on Facebook. I couldn't tell you what percentage of people out of these I actually talk to, because I rarely use it. I suppose a good deal of them are people I would talk to.
I suppose on Facebook, the term 'friends' is used quite liberally. If they called them 'contacts' or whatever, I'm guessing people would tend to accept it more.
I think.
stilinski, September 10th, 2009 at 09:46:10am
i deleted all those types of people you mentioned and i ended up with like 30 friends lol
so i just deleted that facebook and made one just for family and close friends
but i ended up with some people i met at the GD concert and gsb friends
NIK JONUTZ, September 10th, 2009 at 12:03:52am