Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Facebook. Show all posts

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

25 random things on Facebook

OK, anyone else tired of these 25 random things posts on Facebook? If it's a person I know really well or is exceptionally witty, I'm fine with it, otherwise I don't need to see it.

Tuesday, November 18, 2008

Facebook etiqutte: to delete or not to delete?

Saw something on interesting on Ta-Nehisi Coates today:

So it became clear that I couldn't leave Facebook. (*shakes fist*) Still, is it wrong to delete friends? I'd actually like to use my Facebook to keep track of people I want to keep track of. It's nightmare sorting through people you don't know, while trying to find the ones you do. Would I be wrong to trim my Facebook friends back? Only people under 25 are allowed to answer this question. The rest of us are too old.

This is, of course, a moronic question in a lot of ways, but it's one I've thought about myself in the past year as the number of my facebook friends increase. Do I really have 225+ friends? Fuck no. I probably know 60-70 people, family and friends combined, that I would consider a crucial part of my life.

The rest: a collection of junior high, high school, college and other random people who I've seen under 5 times in the last 20 years. We're "friends" in the way Bill Ayers and Barack Obama were "friends." In other words I couldn't tell you if most of these people were in relationships or not or had once bombed the Pentagon or not. So like Ta-Nehisi, I'm thinking about getting rid of them. I'm just wondering if it'd hurt a lot of people's feelings...

(P.S. I realize that as a 29-year-old, I must sound ridiculous even considering this that closely, so it's OK, hate away, I deserve it )