The wonderful world of Facebook. You sign up for free, post some photos and voila! Instanstly you can get in touch from little Timmy next door who you knew when you were just three years old and he lived in your neighbourhood for 2 months. Friends galore will be filling your notification box in no time. Feeling down, simply join Facebook and in about a week you can have up to as many as 500 friends. It's amazing, and a great boost to the ego.
Pardon my sarcasm...the site is great for some reasons. For real friends that you don't see or talk to regularly, it's a great way to keep in touch and see what's going in in their lives (as long as they update their status on a regular basis).
What I find strange is the request from an old peer in high school who you never spoke to, all of a sudden poking you, requesting friendship, and then never even writing to you...but genuinely because they really don't care. And why should they? But if that's the case, why do they want to be your friend?
Facebook to me seems more like a popularity contest to a lot of people...I mean, who really has 256 friends, and counting? I guess it depends on what defines a friend....and I think I have some wall cleaning to do in my near future...
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