Wednesday, November 11, 2009

Facebook Birthdays

I use birthdays as an occasion to de-friend people I don't know very well on Facebook.

The BlackBerry sends a little reminder that says "Today's Birthdays" (it's probably on the bigscreen version too, but it's not very noticeable) along with a list.

I look at the names and figure: if I don't know this person well enough to wish them a happy birthday (and by that, I mean, celebrate the idea that they were born), then I have no business being "friends" with them.

I also figure that on their birthday, they're getting so many facebook messages from their so-called real friends (most of which just say "happy birthday"), they will never miss me from the lineup if I disappear at that moment.

You can always "hide" the people on facebook that are too chatty, or who try to sell stuff via their status updates (apparently a lot of people use the "hide" feature to ignore relatives they don't want to hear from), but I prefer nice clean breaks.

3 comments:

  1. You don't necessarily know me well enough to send me a FB birthday greeting, but, please don't de-friend me. I appreciate your sardonic status updates.

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  2. I would definitely know you well enough to wish you a happy birthday and be glad you were born!

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  3. touchy subject.

    friend or not to friend

    un-friend or not to un-friend

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