Monday, May 02, 2011

Unfriend

I did some major facebook "unfriend-ing" on the weekend.

Major.

I went from 400+ "friends" to 288 "friends".

That's 100+ culled.

Oooh yeah. I was ruthless:

  • Anyone who wasn't a regular (ie more than every six months) user of facebook - unfriended.

  • Anyone who I hadn't spoken to in real life in more than a year - unfriended.

  • Anyone who I only had a vague/tenuous relationship with - unfriended.

  • Anyone (a couple of former so-called Besties) who hadn't returned my calls, texts or emails - unfriended.

  • Anyone still working at the Toxic Workplace of Doom (my former Sydney employer) - unfriended. (That place has gone to hell in a handbasket - all the good people have left and I've remained friends with them. The ones remaining are not worth bothering with.)

  • People I've met for a nano-second at a party or work event or random gathering - unfriended.

  • Anyone who only added me in the first place because of my ticketing connections -unfriended.


All told it was a rather cathartic exercise.

So how was YOUR weekend? Watch the wedding?








3 comments:

Chai said...

And you're left with 288 of your closest friends? Tch tch tch....

magical_m said...

Weeeeelll, I do:

(a) work in the arts where you flit from job to job meeting loads of people;

(b) come from a background where I've lived in a few different countries meeting loads of people;

(c) happen to be a Gemini. We have lots of friends.

Chai said...

:-)

(words fail me)