Does anyone celebrate real friendship anymore?! With the use of facebook, myspace, youtube, blogs, etc., you get the ability to accept/deny/ follow/subscribe to/ join people all over the world. That means being "friends" with people you've never met, met once, know through a friend of a friend who slept with a friend. What the hell is that all about?! I may be old school but, correct me if I'm wrong, I don't want strangers looking at my drunk pictures or, even worse, video of me singing in public at 2am. I become friends with people I actually want to talk to. Whether I see them frequently or they physically materialize in front of me only around the holidays.
I cannot understand the people who have friends just so they can get the numbers. There is absolutely no way that you know the birthdays of all 846 "friends" you have on facebook or even have knowledge of their full names. There's no point in fake friending. No one thinks you're cooler because you have all those friends and no one really cares. Because the people you are actually friends with have to begin to wonder "if you friended me in the same facebook session that you friended those 2 momos you only met once who you're not really friends with, that must mean that WE aren't really friends because you don't value friendship at all".
It's all very complicated and fucked up and horrible. I think I was born in the wrong century. Although I do love the convenience that technology affords me, we've lost contact with the real world and real interactions. I think we can only go downhill from here.
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