(Un)Friendly

A friend who has over one thousand Facebook friends recently added me to her ever growing list of Facebook friends. I am sure that sometime soon I’ll be one in a million. I suppose she is a friend, well, at the very least, the daughter of a someone I used to work with. While clicking approve, or add, or whatever it is that you click to signify that it’s ok and you really are friends, I experienced a sudden epiphany. A vision? A revelation of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who was and is and ever more shall be? No. Just the fact that I really like the number 222. And that I think it’s quite a large number. And in fact, despite my very cheerful and bubbly enthusiasm, in every personality test I’ve ever taken, I’ve always scored a little higher than Eeyore would have on extroversion. Perhaps I am a true double minded person. Perhaps I am truly insane. Perhaps I don’t know myself. Perhaps I am just a little too comfortable with being not quite. At any rate. My minor epiphany led to my next big decision. Two Hundred and Twenty Two friends are too many for me to handle! And so, I felt the need to purge my Facebook list. Does that mean I am never again adding anyone? Never let it be. I would add Michelle Obama in a New York minute. But I would first whittle my list down by just that one person.

It all seems so… callous no? This, I must sacrifice him to add her or her to add him whateverever. But lets just think about this for a minute. Despite the fact that Facebook is wonderful as a networking device where I can have countless relationships and adds and status updates from a bajillion people, is that what I really want? I work a lot with High School youth, and one thing that I’ve observed is that the ones that spend the most time on Facebook and other networking websites are the ones that are the most socially awkward and unable to hold any sort of content filled conversation. Honestly, I don’t think I was much better. Pretty darn awful actually. And I’m still not great at the whole conversation thing. But I can’t help but feel there is some sort of correlation there. It may be the chicken or the egg, but I don’t think it’s helping me.

A friend that I haven’t seen since ninth grade recently posted, “Best to unfriend those who aren’t really”. I was mighty surprised that I made the cut. It’s good to know that I’m not all alone in the FB universe….