No problem

I keep hearing people whine about how hard it is too keep up with all the new social networks and all their friends. Oh, rough. I really feel for you. How about you stay in every once in a while and leave some friends for me?

It really is odd to see how different my world is from others. I have a very small group of friends that I know well. I look at some of them who have over 100 listed connections and wonder how valuable those connections are. It makes me reflect on what the nature of frienship is. I think my assessment is more serious than “people I’ve met or know”. Only the people who I actually know will I invite into a network, and even some of those I do only cautiously.

I think some people have a bit flipped in their brain by this sort of new vogue web service. Suddenly friends can be quantified, “scored”. And people want to “win”. There’s nothing really wrong with that I guess. It just seems odd to me.