Don’t let the title fool you, I’m not desperately begging you to be my friend or follow my blog.
Seriously…although I wouldn’t be be objected to a follow. Okay, enough chasing rabbits and on to the point.
As I scroll through my Facebook mindlessly, I see so many status updates by people I barely know. A good majority of them I can’t even say that we were close at one time, and then reconnected on Facebook and just haven’t actually caught up (you know like normal people do). No, I can’t say that.
I currently have a grand total of 391 friends on Facebook, and – as Bilbo Baggins so eloquently put it, “I don’t know half of you half as well as I should like, and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve.”
Honestly, most of these lovely people I know in a 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon sort of way. I went to church with them when I was younger and was too shy to talk to them (but I knew their parents well), we went to the same grade school or high school (but never spoke), extended family I never see, and so on.
I know I can’t be the only one out there with a friend list such as this one. The funny thing is, it doesn’t matter if I was the one that did the friend request and they accepted or vice versa – that is all that it was: just another friend to add to the list. To me this begs to ask the question: do we friend request people we only vaguely know to maximize our friend list (for whatever self-inflating reason) or is there something deeper to it?
There are at least 20 people I can think of, off the top of my head, who fall under this vague category that I would love to talk to and message and even hang out with. However, I can never bring myself to do more than like the occasional witty status and press 1 on my phone when I’m reminded of someone’s birthday to send well wishes.
The whole ordeal seems so menial and over-thought, that I can’t even comprehend my own apprehension. I mean, if said person sent or accepted my friend request that must mean that they want to do more than creep on my pictures or make me feel better by hitting accept instead of ignore, right?
Until the next page…
Phoenix Living 