Unfriending

There are places online like Myspace where people go to make new friends. Everyone seems to have a Myspace page myself included. It's not the only place because you have Covenspace if you're of the witchy persuasion and if you write there is Urbis. There is also a gay one at Facebook which actually welcomes anyone but I think it's gay friendly. I'm pretty sure it was mentioned on Logo when I happened to be watching that channel. That's so cool that there's a gay channel. Why not since there's a chick channel and a guys channel.

So you have these online communities and they are basically all the same kind of setup. Each person has a profile along with a listing of their friends. I think some people have the idea that they look more appealing or something if they have a lot of friends. I personally find that to be a bit dumb. What's the point of having a hundred plus people if you aren't even talking to them. I doubt very much that anyone even if they do have a computer at their fingertips anytime they want it could chat with that many people and maintain any kind of relationship. I guess they could go the form letter route but doesn't that defeat the purpose.

Maybe I'm weird but I actually want to connect with other people and develop friendships that could at some point if the location is right lead to face to face contact. Obviously that needs to be done in a safe manner but it's not impossible because pen pals do the same thing. This is basically the same thing just done by computer. So I'm not going to rack up a huge list of names just for show because that's just lame.

Unfriending is part of the thing because if you aren't clicking with a person there's no real point in keeping them on your list unless you simply have to have as many people listed as possible. It should be about quality not quanity. It's better to have a few real friends instead of a bunch of flakey ones. So if I don't get anything from a person like they don't get back to me when I write to them they are getting the boot. I don't think that's too bitchy of me. A person doesn't want to be talking to themselves when they are trying to talk to another person. These type of places allow a person to expand their horizons and meet people they ordinarily wouldn't.