Friday, June 24, 2011

Deleting Facebook Friends

When the whole world is trying hard to get to a million twitter followers, a hundred thousand friends , a hundred groups and 1 true friend, I took a different route this time. I opened up my friends list , it was so hard to find where it was hiding. I had 340 friends. Man , 340 people are my friends and I have no clue where the hell each one of them is. No wonder my privacy settings wont help me any longer.

Do you have over 200 friends , its highly unlikely you interact with all of them. If you do , you are really lucky. You have 200 facebook friends and 200 friends on facebook. It is not the same thing, it is different. Facebook is meant to be in touch with friends ( not with those you know, or you once know , and now its no business between u and them, dont add up). A pretty face telling you mutual friends, or just pester on "Add a Friend" would let you add one, then second and .... 

Do you see a person and read , Deepak Gupta is now friends with Sameer Mohan and 20 other people. Suddenly Deepak Gupta is rich , his friend list is long. The  fact is only Sameer is a friend and 20 others tagged along just because I saw friend request from them, or knew them. Then for 2 years 18 of them never talked to me, for those 18 the door is open.

So when I started looking in the list, I could easily delete 50 of them , even without thinking twice. The only thought was, "Was this guy my friend"? But yes, the challenge is hard when you look at refined list. Take a deep breath , delete the friends you dont interact with, most of the time , since they dont interact they won't even come to know you have deleted them. Or you wouldnt come to know if they deleted you. There is no reason to have a heavy FB friend list when every information you have here is at stake.

I did it today,  I know some of the people reading this might have been deleted. For those people, I am not sorry , and if you could have better interacted with me , or let me become a friend from facebook contact, you would still be there. A person who gets out of list was not supposed to be in it in the first place.


Thank you Facebook for helping me find friends and those not so friends

2 comments:

  1. god knows fr reason.. but i loved it!!!! <3 <3 actually i know what u r talking abt... :) :) :) :) i have almost 2k friends on FB!! but i dnt wish to delete them :P job.. u c...
    "mere ghar roti ati h us se" :P :P shit! i cudnt have been more cheesier!!

    n from all that i have read from ur blog.. this is my fav.. :D
    n it reminds me the reason f why i followed ur blog! i loved d way u thought! :)

    god speed!!

    deepali!
    :D

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  2. Hey Deepak!

    This is the first note I am reading on your blog. Never read your blog before :P Cause you didn't share it :D Haha!
    I remember you telling me about your blog though.

    Well, you've took the decision and that sorely could be cause you are heading to a better tomorrow!

    All Best! :)
    Maniesh

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