Wednesday, August 28, 2019

Disdain

I understand the need to expand friends lists on Facebook when you utilize it for business. I have no problem with that when you're using facebook posts to market yourself.

But snagging "friends" to stalk someone else's posts, or requesting friends from another's friends list, especially  those you've never met, or bands you don't like borders on neurotic.  The accumulation of the maximum number of friends isn't a race. No one wins.

It has become increasingly irritating that she'll snag my new friends immediately after I started contacting them for business. I found people on her friends list, and even those she claims she doesn't like.... why have them as friends?

Over the past several months, I have been downsizing my mutual friends, deleting those I don't know over an hour away. I'm down to almost 60% of what I had and specifically targeting mutual friends, since I want to diminish the commonalities between us.

It's the first step in my divestiture and liberation