I have never had what people refer to as a "mass cut" of my friends
from Facebook. Honestly, I have only deleted two people since I opened
my account (and with good reason). There are 631 people that I share my
life with everyday through Facebook. Through Facebook, I have found
people I never thought I would see or talk to again. I keep up with old
friends, make plans with family and friends I talk to and see
frequently, tag my husband in posts and check-ins to annoy the hell out
of him, find out about things I didn't know about from movies to music
to where to eat in another city or state, and I get to communicate with
people who have the same sense of humor as I do and appreciate the
stupid shit that I have to say. For all of these things that I love
about Facebook, recently, there have been things that make me roll my
eyes and want to be a total bitch. I don't like that. I try not to
surround myself with people in my life that are annoying, so why would I
want to know what they are doing all day long. Now, I am sure that
some of the things that I post are catty and offensive to some and
stupid and annoying, and I know that people have deleted me and that is
totally fine. I would never want someone to pretend like they enjoy me
if they don't...I can be very unpleasant at times. Also, I have friends
who have the total opposite view of politics or religion that I do, and
that is totally fine. I would never delete someone for what they
believe or what they think about a certain topic...that would be
ridiculous. In fact, some of the people who are the most different from
myself are the people I look forward to posting. I love seeing pictures
of people's dogs, kids, houses, vacations, mixed tapes they have found
in a closet, a lady wearing something horrible in Wal-Mart, a funny
license plate, a plate of food, etc. Some people are constantly put off
if they don't appreciate or agree with every single thing that you post,
but I say there is reason we are friends and more than likely it is
because we will both take a picture of a beautiful bacon cheeseburger or
I will appreciate that your child put a dinosaur in your nativity
scene.
More than once, myself and plenty of other people
my age have said the words, "I am so glad that Facebook didn't exist
when I was in high school/college." The reason we say this is because
we know how dramatic and ridiculous everything we did was back in those
days, and once more I have to say, thank goodness we didn't have to
worry about all of the things that we posted or high school drama or
after we left Rabb's (just an example). I am glad I didn't deal with
things of that nature then and I am not going to deal with it now. I
couldn't deal with it now because I just too busy, too old and honestly I
am over people like that.
With all of that said, I am
going to have my first friend cut. Honestly, I will probably have only
15 or 20 less friends than I do right now when this is over because not
much bothers me. Most of my friends will never even read this, but I
feel like it is my duty to offer a little advice to those who may see
that their numbers are dwindling. If you are constantly dramatic and
vague, petty, immature, socially challenged (this is a social network,
let's act like humans people), annoying, self righteous, passive
aggressive or, and I can admit this, I keep you around for entertainment
purposes, then I would like to say to you "it's been real." I never
thought I would delete "friends" from Facebook, but as I get older I
realize that some people just really suck, so I have decided that I need
to actually "like" the people who experience little pieces of my life
everyday and not just accept them. So to those people who will no
longer get to see pictures of my sweet dog, hear about my upcoming
moving experience, which will be funny, or know my thoughts on the
Grammy performances, peace out...I would tell you to stay the same and
don't change, but that would be misleading.
