| Oct. 9th, 2008 @ 09:49 am TNC on: Facebook- "friends" |
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Current Mood:  thoughtful
I'm a very popular person! Truly, I must be... If you look at my "friends"-counter on my Facebook account it says that I have 97 (count them, 97!) friends... Not bad for a shy little tomboy from the boonies!
The thing is... It isn't entirely true... I have very few people that I consider my friends, and it is definitely a lot less than 97, and some of these people are not even ON Facebook...!
So I sat down and took a look at my friends counter and I realised that out of the 97 so-called friends, there is three or four that I have never met, one that I probably never will meet and know very little about, I don't even know what her voice sounds like! There are 28-30 that are former co-workers, so not included people from the TB admin staff, about 3-4 family members (Kris' family) and about 20-25 former classmates, NONE of whom I have contact with today other than through Facebook, and even then the contact is limited!
Of the 97 people on my friends list, I talk to maybe... 10... on a weekly basis and about 50 of them I speak to every once a month... The rest are just... fillings...
Now, people who know me WELL know that I guard the few close friendships I have like a hawk. I usually say that my closest friends aren't really my friends, they're the family I picked myself. These, I think, can be counted on two hands, maybe less, for they are very very few. Then there are the people I enjoy spending time with and enjoy talking to whom I consider to be great friends, and these are few, but more than my "friend-family"... And the rest, the fillings, are "acquaintances", people I have a neutral relationship with and whom I'd probably get along with fine without much hassle... But all of a sudden 97 friends, consisting of some 75-80 percent "filling", doesn't sound like that much...!
So, here's the fun part! Getting added to someone's friendlist...! I get emails saying that some girl in Germany, never heard of her, has added me to her friend's list because... I made the group "Support the ElfQuest movie" and she happened to be an ElfQuest fan...! Woah, yes, sure thing, that makes us friends...! Best buds, as a amatter of fact! ... or not...!
Got a mail this morning that some crazy girl from my time at Søndervangsskolen had added me to her friend's list... I never liked her... I remember finding her revolting, and I remember the feeling was mutual, and now she wants to get on my friends list? Go take a hike, woman...!
The best one yet is that I have gotten two requests (denied them both) from a former classmate from Hasselager. I think his fame (he took part in the Paradise Hotel series, urgh! *nausea*) has gotten to his brain, because hey, his profile on the website said that he was the honest, straight-foreward Jutland guy... Sure you were, even for the three years you spent picking on my every move. I was very close to doing something really stupid, because being picked on like that makes you feel very unwanted and unliked, and now this fucking dick wants to go on my FRIENDS list? Yes, I carry a grudge, and in my opinion, I do that in all fairness! I have my effing reasons...
So I find that "friends" list a bit funny... They should call it a People I know-list or an Acquaintance list... Because how many can, truthfully, say, that all their entries on their friends list are not just people they know casually, but are in fact their friends...
I sure can't... |
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