Like everyone one else on the planet (except for Rock-Star Wife), I have a facebook account. The thing that bugs me most about it is the random friend requests I get. I get probably one or two a day from people I went to high school with. I don't remember being friends with these people in high school, in fact most of them I don't even remember (I did graduate from high school twenty years ago, so I suppose it's ok if I don't remember all 425 people in my graduating class).
For the people that I do remember and were friends with, or at least knew socially, I generally accept their friends request. But for the most part, I don't remember these people, or even better, I do remember them and distinctly remember not being friends with them in high school. People, if I didn't like you 20 years ago, what on earth makes you think I'll like you now? If anything, I'd like to think my taste in friends has gotten more refined, so you're pretty much double screwed.
I've broken my friends on facebook into several categories:
1. Genuine friends that I communicate with via email, telephone, face-to-face, etc.;
2. Genuine friends that I communicate with via facebook;
3. People that I used to be #1 with, but have fallen out of touch with, so now they're #2;
4. People that I know, but don't really consider them #1 worthy; and
5. People that I know or used to know and don't really care to speak to them anymore, but am interested in what has become of them, so I read their updates.
I've discovered something else about facebook that drives me crazy...people really think other people give a shit about their day to day lives. Seriously, I could care less if you are at a certain bar or having dinner with your hubby. I don't need a play by play of what you did today. Who gives a shit? I'll tell you who -- NOT ME!!! By the way, I get the irony of posting my thoughts and rants/raves...but this is different. I'm not giving you a play by play of my day, I'm giving you my opinion on shit that bugs me.
Don't even get me started on twitter, that is for another post for another day.
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