As I sit around looking
at my friend list in facebook I cannot help but wonder who are all these people.
I stress hard trying to push my already tired brain further to squeeze out when
I met these individuals. After a while I realized that I really do not know these
people I just know of them. Sounds strange right.. There is a clear difference.
Take a minute and look at your facebook friend list and count how many people
have you met in the real world and soon my misery would dawn on you as well. I
am not sure when and why but facebook has turned from a platform to make new
friends and connections to collecting crap. Refusing anyone’s facebook friend
request is regarded nothing less than a hate crime and it would not take long
before you have hundreds or even thousands of facebook friends with no essence
of the word friend in them.
There are other interesting
problems that come bundled with having so many friends. Instead of accessing
facebook to post something, upload my picture or read a message I end up
spending countless hours reading through piles of junk that my “friends” have
posted. The topics are most fascinating ranging from children diaper rash to airplane
models for your drawing room. I will not pretend to think that I have a sane
way to organize my facebook friends into real friends and acquaintances neither
am I brave to fight against the huge notification gladiator in facebook to stop
getting all the spam mail I get. I am going to do the right thing – “Unfriend”
. Yes you heard it right I am risking it all but I really cannot help it. I do
not dislike you at all it is just that I do not know you enough to begin to
like you and then transition to a real friend and while there is a chance of
that happening I am not counting on that!!.
I believe that it is time we
detoxify our social networks to make an attempt to go back to the sole reason
why we registered with them in the first place. I know that after this article
I will see a lot of angry facebook posts about me as well as a few fans sharing
my write-up with their disapproval ratings. What can I say “A man has got to do
what a man has got to do…”:
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