Is your life measured by keystrokes? Do you feeled compelled to tweet, text, and post on a daily or even hourly basis in order to assure yourself and the electronic world around you that you exist?
A friend of mine has a brother who has over 3,000 facebook "friends". How many of them do you suppose he knows? How many of them does he care about? How many of them care about him?
3,000 "friends"?
I doubt that I am acquainted with 3,000 people, much less "friends" with that many. Think about the number. If an elementary school teacher taught 30 children each year for 30 years, that would be 900 students. How many of the first year class would the teacher remember by retirement? If the teacher was also acquainted with ALL of the parents of those 900 children, the total number would begin to approach 3,000. But friends?
Of course, I don't make a habit of "friending" on facebook people I do not actually know IRL. I have made ONE exception. A person whose blog I regularly follow asked the blog readers to "friend" her. There are days when her blog post is actually her facebook jottings. I have also directly communicated with her by e-mail. As I say, ONE person I have never physically met.
So, if you have 3,000 "friends", if you spend your entire day tweeting, twittering, texting, posting, e-mailing, IMing, what are you doing with your life?
Do you have a life?
Please, post and let me know.
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Ha! I only have 61 friends! And now you need to 'friend' me! I too don't understand how or why people amass such ridiculous numbers of so-called 'friends.' I usually attribute my inability to understand to being 'old.'
ReplyDeleteHate to tell you this, the guy in question is probably about our age (his sister, my friend is 62) She says he is now at around 4,000 'friends'
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