WHAT HAPPENED TO FRIENDSHIP?
It is true, friendship is one of the things that can not go out of season; however, in this digital age, you can easily mistaken friendship with Friend. It is obvious that the number of Friends on your facebook does not represent true friendships, but more likely a place of pointless babble from people that you met once at a drunken party. It is true that online socialising tools can help you to connect to those you had lost, but can you remember how you lost contact with these people at the first place? For example you grew out of your school friends, and after discovering it all over again on facebook, you need to keep each other on the Friend's list for the sake of keeping each other on the list, and most of the time, the Limited List. Some can not help to wonder: What's the point? Some people had even initiate race with other strangers to get as much Friends as they can within a month - perhaps all these digital wonders can not out-season friendship, but definitely cloud things up a little.
So how does one differentiate between friendship and Friends?
Wicked does regular clean-ups - deleting a few once in a while.
It is nice to hear other people's pointless babble and posting a few herself (her last post was about a glow-in-the-dark toilet paper), and she enjoys the event tool because it always shows the map. But seriously, for her, Friends are not friendship.
This time she deleted a few family members whom she never really been in contact with, some may call it brutal, some call it a reminder to actually make a call instead of sending a "poke".
Most of them actually appreciate this except one. Apparently this second cousin had been going through all of Wicked friends to see which one is her boyfriend, eventually turned into a creepy obsessive detailing/opinionated about Wicked's friend; in fact, not just Wicked, to everyone on his Friend's list.
In a way, making the call was a bright idea, or she would not be able to tell how sickening this second cousin is - also confirmed it was a good idea to delete him...
A week later Wicked's mother called, and 1 baffling thing pop-ed up: Wicked was reported, yes, as in reporting a scandal and hoping an authority figure to fix it for him. Wicked's mom, always a prim and proper lady, asked if she had deleted the cousin on facebook, Wicked told her mom, she don't do justifying, let alone silly little bits like facebook Friends... "So mom, if you're looking for an explanation you can safe the energy, but I can confirm with you that I deleted him."
If he's man enough, he would let Wicked know he is uncomfortable that she deleted him. If that happens, she would be honest and say he is a creepy no live person who can only hang on lives of the others; for the sake of himself and people he love and those who loves him (if there's any), he would seek professional help.
she pity him but she would not let someone like him to get anywhere close to people she actually consider friends.
And she's posting the entire incident online...
