I have 302 friends on Facebook. I don't know if that's a large number or not. I've seen people with more. I've seen people with less. There's one thing I'm sure off. No one should be impressed with anyone who has lots of friends.
I wouldn't recognize half of my "friends" if I saw them on the street. I can't be alone in this. The only reason most people have hundreds of friends is because they won't deny a "friend request." There's a myriad number of reasons for this. I'm sure some people love to see that "friends" number climb. In my case...it's guilt. I feel guilty if I don't accept someone as a friend. What a blatant form of rejection. "Um...no...you can't be my friend." That's harsh. I can't do that. Some people are from high school. Some are from Glacier. Most of them...I don't talk to anymore...not even on Facebook. There are even some who apparently "know" me...but I've never even met them. Chalk that up to my job. Someone sees me on the news and throws a friend request my way. Some of my colleagues wouldn't entertain the idea of accepting such an invitation. I, for one, feel guilty if I don't. It's Facebook Guilt.
I went through my Facebook and MySpace friends lists about 6 months ago to do a little weeding. I deleted about two dozen people. But it's no secret that Facebook has really taken off in the last six months. I've had friend requests pouring in since then...(some from people I weeded out weeks earlier). I'm not fighting it anymore. It's not like anyone actually keeps up to date with everyone on their list. I keep in touch with a select few...and just let the others sit there. I suppose there's no harm in that.
3 comments:
happy to be one of the "select few."
Well I am considering since you follow my blog and I follow yours, that I am one of the select few. I am glad to see how your career is going. I always knew in HS that you would be so incredible, even if we didn't hang out all the time. I think as we grow up a little that we can find new friendships as we go along in life. I will say that I too suffer from the FB guilt. Especially if we have like 8 people in common and I don't remember them. I feel bad they "might" remember me.
glad to keep up to date with you.
Just click no! Funny you write this post cause I was thinking about this exact thing several weeks ago and I decided no more friend confirming if I don't at least randomly talk to said friend on occassion.
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