Friend Clutter

Facebook is a friend of mine, as is Twitter, but are these social networking sites really a communication tool or is it just for being nosey and finding out what Dave Jones is up to these days? - oh look hes married, not sure i like his wifes dress in that pic, and what an unfortunate looking child, HIDE FROM NEWSFEED.
Let see what Sarah Green is up to, oh shes been to spain again and look theres another photo she took of herself and her boyfriend pouting and looking smug - boring

People who have 761 friends cant possibly be interested in every individual person if you arent friends with someone in real life why are you friends on facebook?

I know someone who accepted a friend request from someone they didnt even like, why? Are we just nosey? Personally if I dont talk to you or have rarely ever spoken to you, dont know anything about you and dont wish to, dont add me on facebook! I wont accept your friendship request because you are clearly just a nosey begger and Ive not accomplished anything that would interest you anyway! (i sound so stroppy! Im not!)

However, I have found that I have more in common with a number of people I went to school with but didnt know that well. For example, my passion for food, being generally creative and other hobbies appear to have sparked conversations with these people who I didnt really know very well, its actually quite nice, you can stay!

How offended do people get when you defriend them? It makes me laugh, its JUST facebook, I know someone who once got really angry that I had deleted them from facebook, to which i responded with, "if you carry on I will defriend you for genners" (for real) that didnt go down very well. This is before the "hide" feature was available.

Im not a fan of "checking in" it ruins conversations you have, when you tell someone you went somewhere at the weekend and they saw on facebook that you had been there it puts an end to a potential conversation.

So although I say that facebook is my friend there are many parts of it that irritate me.

Anyway that is my rant for the day, please feel free to carry on with your day :-)

Do a friend cull, I DARE YOU!