I’ve only been on facebook for a short while. I didn’t really want to get involved with it at all, but none of my younger family members will write, e-mail or use the phone, so the only way I could be in any contact with them was on FB. That has worked out fairly well. My best friend, who lives in another city and I usually just use regular e-mail and the phone, but sometimes she and I will post things on FB, but not often.
The problem started when all of these other people who I have not seen or heard from in years started friending me. I don’t want to be rude and not let them in, but I feel like I barely know them. I feel like if they really wanted to be friends with me, then they would be friends with me in real life, but that just isn’t the case. There is only one friend, who also lives in another town, that got back in touch with me that I’ve enjoyed chatting with. The other ones I’ve relegated to the back burner and don’t let them see my posts (because they have no relevance to them and I really don’t want to have “fake” conversations with them, but I also don’t want to un-friend them as I’ve heard that some people take that as an insult).
Except for my best friend, and only because she’s in another town, all of the rest of my real friends are all in person and not on facebook. I think facebook is great for keeping up to date with family (pictures and events) but with friends, it just seems too weird and impersonal and there’s too many people who have no need to know what I’m doing every second of the day. And I absolutely don’t care whether someone is at 7–11 or watching Gilligan’s Island.