I came into Facebook quite late – sometime in early 2009 if I remember correctly. I was pretty much against it and was dragged into it kicking and screaming! As you may know, I am an intensely private person, so the idea of having my entire life played put for the world to see seems to be very ugh to me!
Don’t take this as an anti-Facebook rant – far from it. Once I discovered Facebook and what it can do, I was hooked! I reconnected with classmates and friends whom I had probably seen on the day we collected our class X results, around 20 years back and it was great to be a part of their lives, albeit through Facebook. Unlike some people, I am very discerning about whom I ‘friend’. I need to know who this person is and also check for mutual friends before I ‘accept’ their friends request. Sometimes without a photo, I have rejected requests only to find out later that I do know them after all – and then go and give them a friend request!
But seriously how many friends are you really in touch on Facebook? I would say there are about less than 10 that I regularly send messages or write on walls. There would be another 20 odd with whom I have sporadic conversations. The rest are either work related friends (and I use the term very loosely here) with whom there would be interactions perhaps a couple of times a year or school/college/previous workplace friends who’ve friended me and whom I’ve accepted as a friend just because I know them. Other than an initial chat when we first reconnected, there’s nothing to talk!
So how many ‘friends’ do you have on Facebook and to how many so you regularly and really talk to?
Here’s a real funny video about what would happen if Facebook happened in real life!
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