Archive for October, 2006

I think Facebook is the most depressing thing to happen to the world.

Everyone who uses Facebook will be familiar with the concept of Facebook friends, which I will call faciends in this entry (Feel free to use faciends openly in you day to day conversations). I have 97 faciends. I know, I know, some of you have 698 (Pradeepan), but bare with me. Of the 97 reported faciends of Adam, about 20 are still in my life outside of the Facebook world. Faciends represent about 1 in 7 (just a guess) of the people that I have been friends with in my life (Side note: that means that Pradeepan currently has more faciends than I have had friends). That means for every faciend I see in my list there are 6 friends I do not.

Don’t be misled…I love using Facebook to keep up with as many friends as possible, but do I really need that kind of daily reminder? How hard should we fight to maintain forgotten relationships? How hard should we fight to develop new ones? How many “close” friends make being “close” impossible? How few friends make someone feel lonely?