So I was on Facebook recently and puffed my chest out at my growing number of "friends" on Facebook. You know what I am talking about, especially those of you with 50 or more "friends" on Facebook. It makes us feel good to know that we have so, so many "friends."
But I began to seriously think about what a friend really is, and what the concept of friendship means to me. To me, a friend is someone who I can rely on to be there to return my phone call or one that we check in with each other on a regular basis. Sometimes this might be consistent or inconsistent, but nevertheless we stay in touch. And no, looking at your "friends" status updates doesn't count. I might give you points for actually responding to their updates, but just looking at them doesn't count as keeping in touch. Regarding friendship, I believe it goes deeper than looking at one another through an electronic medium.
So I am making an official request to the founders of Facebook. Please Mr. Hughes, Mr. Zuckerberg, and Mr. Moskovitz would you consider changing the title of Facebook Friends to Facebook "Contacts?" I think that is much more appropriate. And for those of you with over hundreds of "friends" on Facebook (especially those of you with thousands of friends) can you honestly say that you have never thought about this yourself? To be honest, I know I have. That is why I have just spent 30 minutes out of my day writing this s***.
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