Sunday, December 7, 2008

Who needs friends when you have Facebook?

I'm having a Carrie Bradshaw, Sex in the City moment. Don't worry I'm not going to sit near my window with a cigarette and ask myself rhetorical questions, no my Sex in the City moment revolves around friends.

Facebook, facebook, facebook... or as I like to call it Stalkbook. Who doesn't enjoy a Stalkbook session of going through people's photos, reading their wall and checking status updates. It seems that people love to self promote, tell people what they are having for dinner, how drunk they were, how hungover they are etc etc etc etc.

I have over 300 "friends" on Stalkbook... but really how many are actually my friends. People I went to school with 15 years ago and random people who I met on Saturday night just don't cut it.
So now I have invested my time in what I like to the Sunday Night Eviction. Slowly and surely, one by one cutting "friends" off the list. Cause heaven forbid one of these friends find out they are no longer on my list.

It seems that privacy has flown out the window. And social conversation now involves words such as "tagging" and "OMG, profile pic!". When you meet people, its not "what's your number" anymore, more like - "Do you have Facebook?". It seems nobody actually likes to talk to anyone anymore. First it was the phone, then the fax, then slowly the mobile, text message, email and now social networking. Its like people are avoiding each other.

A few of my "real" friends are cutting Facebook out of their lives... how on earth will they know what's going on in the world????

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