Oh friends. Easy come easy go. It appears that I am affecting the smallest number of people, but people nonetheless. As of lately I haven't been avid about posting everyday, and honestly its because I don't think about Facebook as much anymore. The largest deficit that I have noticed is the ability to get mass amounts of social news at once on a regular basis. Basically my life has become simplified by 1,000,000,000. However, this news has had little to no affect on my life with its void. Proving that the bullshit that people post is for momentary satisfaction or a good conversation starter/facilitator.
Through my minor influence a friend of mine actually decided to go through his list of FB friends, just as I plan to do, and clean house. This friend began with well over 1,000 FB friends mind you, and half way through the alphabet actually had deleted approximately 300 friends. When asked which ones he deleted, he said the creepy ones, those with unrecognizable birthdays, and the ones that he randomly met and no longer really cared to keep in contact with.
This got me thinking about who I was going to delete when I got back on. Sadly as seen in my last posted video, if we all have 856 friends we are probably lying to ourselves and really only have 4. Four close friends that we actually make an effort to see, hangout with, ask for advice, or text during the week. Everyone else in my opinion is simply there for entertainment--for those moments when you are bored and welcome any distraction, whether it be a popping chat or an ant crawling up the side of your bedroom wall. Yes I just compared the insignificant 'filler' friends to ants. The people I am discussing are those who you really do not notice are gone until they post something worth reading. When evaluating my friendships I plan on deleting the following people:
1. People who I honestly do not know. I have no clue how they got added to my friends list in the first place and therefore should not be there, unless you're really cute.
2. People who added me just because we met once or have mutual friends--no that does not entitle you to a front seat ticket to my life; I merely was trying to stalk and judge you before I actually had to talk to you.
3. People with annoying posts about their children. I don't have any and don't plan on them anytime soon so why do I want to hear about how your child ate their first glue stick today?
4. People I have no clue where we met. Yes I actually have many of these, and if you aren't worth remembering the first time, I highly doubt the second time around.
5. Stalkers. You know who you are, and there is no need for me to allow this charade to continue, unless you beg on your knees and buy me nice gifts.
6. Highschool people I literally never talked to or actually hated back in the day. High school is over, thank god, and so is our fake acknowledgement of each other's existence on Facebook.
7. Annoying post-ers that think Facebook is Twitter. Different URLs people.
And last but not least...
8. Ex boyfriends, ex friends & assholes. Things ended for a reason and if you were of interest to begin with and nothing panned out, game over.
These individuals must most definitely be deleted from any person's profile. A number is exactly that, a number. It in no way describes how popular you are or how cool you are. Your life is the same whether you add every poor soul who asks to be friends or a mere number of 5 friends. Again with the lies. To what? Make ourselves feel better? Make others think we are worth knowing? My new life motto is prove it. If you say you snowboard, let's go. If you say you read, tell me about it. If you say you have 2,000 'friends', invite me to one hell of a party!
So anyone who reads this, please do yourself a favor and delete those so-called friends who you really don't care about. They and You deserve it.
