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Health & Fitness

Are You My Friend?

After the buzz about Facebook making some changes, I realized I needed to do some updating!

I feel very blessed in the friend department. I have friends I have known since before grade school, friends I work with and friends I know will cheer me up when I am feeling down. I also have a large number of “friends” on Facebook.

Recently I came to the conclusion I need to cut back on the number of Facebook Friends I have. Why? Because in a way some of them are fake friends. Yup, I am being totally honest, when I first started on Facebook it was kind of exciting seeing my friend count rise daily, I must be likeable, all these people want to be my friend!

The whole reason I created an account to was to keep in touch with people I don’t see very often. It’s a great way for my family in the UK to share photos and even chat for free. It even allowed me to get in touch with long lost friends from school and college.

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Lately though I have been questioning whether I am really interested in all the updates filling up my newsfeed, of course it does not help now that Facebook has decided which updates are my “Top Stories”. So I am going to be proactive and do some thinning of the herd.

I have created a Survivor style approach to deciding who should stay and who gets “unfriended”! From now on, if your status grosses me out (really, someone I know posted graphic details about a stomach ailment)–pft, your flame is out! Same goes if you feel the need to update your status frequently with a complaint, or whine. I have kids, I don’t need to hear any more whining! If you insist on writing everything in the abbreviated form used in text messaging; game over. If we have never socialized in real life; so long. If you can say you have never done any of these things, don’t think it grants you immunity…

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If you were exiled from my Facebook world, please don’t take it personally, I have been “unfriended” and it’s really no big deal. My mind is made up, the tribe has spoken!

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