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- Is it acceptable to delete friends from facebook?
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+ Is it acceptable to delete friends from facebook?
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This qustion is something that my friends often talk about. Most of my own friends think that there is nothing wrong with ti, but others - including my mother - think deleting Facebook friends should be a capital offence.
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+I think the first real issue is whether or not our Facebook friends are our friends in real life too. I never accept strangers onto my Facebook profile - or any other social network. At the same time, though, I would not call many of my Facebook 'friends' actual friends. I have many friends from school and university on Facebook, but I speak to very few of them. Many are people I have met only once, or are old colleagues. While I do know everybody, I really cannot claim that they are all my friends.
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+Every time I delete somebody form Facebook I think about how I would feel being deleted. I don't have to imagine - I have been deleted by plenty of people. Before, whenever I realised that somebody had deleted me, I desperately searched fo find out who it was. I've stopped doing that - I have learned that if I cannot work out who deleted me, they probably weren't that important to me. I remember when Facebook was still a new social network. Taking about deleting people was always done in whisper - it could not be spoken about openly, in case somebody overhead and was offended. Now deleting 'friends' is much more common, and often spoken about among friends (real-life ones, that is). People nowadays even announce on Facebook that they are about to delete a number of people. This is, I think, to make you feel lucky if you are 'saved', but it often has the opposite effect.
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+I think the answer to the question of deleting friends is quite simple. Friedships are not permanent. Very few relationships really are. Why, then, should Facebook 'friendships' be permanent? I think we have to delete friends in order to reflect the realities of real-life relationships.
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+Deleting a few friends is acceptable, I think. There is one thing I do know, though: deleting your mother is not acceptable. I learnt that one the hard way.
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