Facebook

I've been feeling really ambivalent of late about the social networking site Facebook. I've been using it for about 18 months and tire of my own and others minutiae. Perhaps I am too serious, perhaps I envisaged that it would be something other than it is? I understood that other people's interests would not necessarily interest me and that if I accepted someone as a friend that there was always the opportunity to opt out of knowing them by ignoring their posts or blocking them forever. I've done this on a few occasions. But I'm now finding that I want to do another cull. If I was really honest I'd probably delete ninety percent of those people who are supposedly my 'friends' and I'd only keep those who I actually have some kind of affinity with. This is a decision I'll make today. It's strange though, because when I have done this before people I don't know in real life write to me asking why I have taken them off my friends list. I don't understand why they would be concerned, I've been removed from others list. Why do we take all of this so seriously? Are our egos so fragile that we can't cope with rejection. Ok, I'd better get on with doing this ~ and I was going to say 'It's not you ~ it's me', but believe me it's definitely you.