The definition of FRIEND updated by FB

300+ or 500+ some over 1000.  Why? Why do we have so many "friends" on our FB page or other social websites.  It dawned on me that, just because you knew the person or met the person in High School, or worked with them for a little, doesn't mean they get to see and hear things about your personal life and thoughts.  On the flip side, let's say you added the above named people in hopes of making friends and actually pursue having a decent outgoing healthy life.  If after a while it's not working out and your see that those people really aren't "letting you in" and they aren't making that effort as well, then you need to decide if you still want that person seeing your inner thoughts and pictures.
On a totally different side, if you just use your profile to say things that aren't true or you're using your page to present an image of you and your life that isn't true, then you kinda don't need to be reading this piece, you need help, seriously.

Now here's the rub, the internet is the internet.  It will always be, it was, before you and it will always be, after you.  I did a test and deleted over 200 people who had initially 'accepted' to be my friend on FB, and not one of them seemed to care.  Now down to 300+ people that I actually know or had some form of long term interaction with, either high school mates or co-workers and actual friends.  

When I say actual friends I mean people who's houses I can go to, people who I can text randomly and share thoughts with, people who I consider when I want to hit the town and have some fun, most importantly people who I reach out to when I have issues going on and need some perspective with decisions.  How many people on your friends list fit the 'actual' part of friend?   Even with the ability to group people into acquaintances and work and other creative categories, how much interaction do you actually have with them now that you have quarranteened  them.  What's the point of that?  While at the same time, you're expecting people to see and 'like' the things that you present.  This need for social validation is just another avenue allowing people to live a separate and fake lives in aims of filling some gap in their real lives.

Now I must admit that what's going in real life now is not something we always want to share.  People have lost their jobs, have debt, unable to pay bills, have private issues that have lead to deep depression and I'm sure a number of other unmentionables.  So coming online provides that outlet to 'live' a secondary life, a break you may call it from the pressures that might be as per person.  It's sold faster than hot bread, because it's free and no one checks you.  Even me writing this piece, I don't expect alot of people to read it, or 'like' it or approve or disapprove of it, because this is the internet, it existed before me and it will exist after me and it is too big for my words to make an impact.  So as much as I would like it to make some impact, I have to accept the possible truth, that it will not.  But at least I have the freedom to say what I felt needed to be said.