This may sound stupid to admit, but I literally have 323 Facebook friend requests collecting dust. Some of these thumbnail photos I recognize, while as with others, I do not. Yeah, I went to high school with you, but we’ve never talked. Sure, you and I cheered on the same squad. Okay, we had one class together, but did we ever communicate? Have you ever once said, “Hey, Eliza, how are you?” I don’t think so. And this, my dear friend request lingerer, is why you are still in my “I guess I’ll decide later” pile.
It’s not that I never hit the “confirm” or “not now” button, because I do quite frequently, but it’s just that I have a funny feeling that some of these requesters won’t ever actually communicate with me upon confirmation. Why do you want to be Facebook friends with someone, if you never leave an occasional comment or two? If we never talked in middle school, if we never talked in high school, then why would you request to be my friend years down the road if you know you won’t talk to me now?
I think that Facebook is a place for the 500 million users to communicate with the people they feel most comfortable sharing personal information with. I don’t think the girl in my math class that sat in the back right corner, who also never talked to me, needs or cares to know what I do on my free day from the college chaos.
So as it stands, my 323 friend requests will slowly start to diminish, for I realize that half of the requests are from peers from the past, not the present.
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