Monday, June 15, 2009

Questions concerning face book.

Face book. Upon joining face book I must admit I wasn't thrilled, just another thing to occupy my time and another system to figure out. (Which by the way they decide to change more often than not just to keep you busy with it.)
"FRIENDS"
When you take a good look at face book it would appear that any one person has hundreds and hundreds of friends- but can this really be the case? Can classmates from 3rd grade, whom you haven't spoken to in 30 years, really be considered a "friend?" Doesn't there have to be some form of communication between two people to be called friends? I think I even have some on my page that I don't even know or cannot place! Are these people really my "friends"?
"REQUESTS"
I have never in my life had someone who formally "requested" to be my friend and yet here on face book this is a regular occurrence! Should one ever, in any relationship, have to "request" to be your friend? I cannot remember a time when I went up to someone and said something like "I have only known you for a short while, but may I request to be your friend? This I am sure would send some running in the opposite direction!
"IGNORE"
I would never purposefully "ignore" my friend, yet once again that is an option for any "friend" I have on face book. I can ignore them any time I want! Now granted, there have been some times while speaking to friends that my mind has wandered and my focus was not completely with them, but to purposefully tell myself I am going to ignore them- I have never done.
Now, before you call me a hypocrite I admit, I do have a face book, I do go on it occasionally, I do have many "friends" (and have even ignored some) I have "requested" some friends as well. But it just makes me wonder- how many true friends do I have out there? How often have I been "ignored" without even knowing it? And am I just part of a status symbol to be added to someones friend list to make them appear as though they have more friends than the next guy? Face book.......hum..

9 comments:

MrsKraft said...

some pretty deep musings there, my "friend"!
Hope you are feeling well--not too much longer now!!

Mari said...

Hey wait a minute...you haven't requested me as a friend on facebook!!! JUST KIDDUNG...I am never on there I created an account a long time ago and just recently friends from church found me and requested I be a friend I couldn't "ignore" them so I have like 20 friends. I guess I'm not that popular....hahaha. How are you feeling? when are you due?? Praying for you.
Love Mari

Kami said...

Jenn, deep?? you know me better than that!

Mari, I don't even know how to look for people- so sorry about that!
Ten days left and counting!!!

MrsKraft said...

Must be the pregnancy--Eli is gonna be a smart one!

big t said...

When i joined FB i said i would have less than 100 friends. I am at 99 and now don't know what to do. Do i cut friends?

Kami said...

big t,

let's not fool ourselves into thinking we have more friends than we really do!

Trail Rated said...

Yea, so Big T is dropping me as a friend ... It was good while it lasted

Trail Rated said...

So I checked my facebook, and I'm worried about having only 533. It's OK though, I just requested a couple new people!

Trail Rated said...

Theyre all REALLY good friends too - cause I have time for all of them (or maybe none of them)