Friday, 27 September 2013

To my Facebook Friends

Today's Blogtember prompt is the one I've been waiting all month for...An anonymous letter to your Facebook friends (no real names).
 
 
Dear "Friends",
 
Please note the inverted commas, I know, I know there's going to be some of you that are really offended that you wouldn't make the cut on my wedding invite list, but adding me because we last spoke to each other in 1994 doesn't make us proper friends.
 
I'm just as bad for accepting your friend request, but the drama I caused when I last cleared out my friends list..."Hey Hun, is everything OK? Have I offended you? You've de-friended me...Message me back, I'm worried...blah blah blah"...has scared me away from future culls.
 
On the subject of friend culls...to the girl who insists every week on posting "If you're still reading this you made it through my friend cull, be grateful haha"...I last saw you when I was 7, if I'm the level of friend that you desire you lead a lonely life, please go outside and talk to real people.
 
If you insist on adding a status such as "OMG I feel so down, can't believe the day I've had...really need a hug" don't then lapse into complete silence. You wanted someone to notice you, leaving 30 people hanging when they have taken the time to say "U OK BABE?" or "What's up hun" is unfair. To reply with "Can't explain on here" is just bloody rude...if you can't discuss it, don't mention it.
 
Thank you to the friends who document every single outing with a mountain of pictures, I really am happy to see in minute detail every meal that you eat and every cocktail that you drink, but I really don't need to see the same cocktail 7 different times...each snapshot being more out of focus than the last.
 
Thank you for trying to steal me away from my chosen profession to that of a farmer, pizza pantry owner, zoo owner and demolition expert. But trust me when I say no amount of gifts, notifications or requests is going to change my mind. When you find a fun accountancy game to play I might join in...until then I'M.NOT.INTERESTED
 
Finally to my true friends, you know who you are...I see you in real life, we laugh at old memories and make new ones when we catch up. I love seeing your beautiful families, I'm grateful to find out what you've been up to, sharing in the joy of a new relationship, job, house and sharing in the sadness of loss. I can't always be at the other side of the door but I am just a mouse click away.
 
Love Carrie xx

 

23 comments:

  1. I think you must be friends with some of my "friends" on Facebook. The other one that drives me potty is the continual moaning about being broke and needing a better job, followed by "I just bought the new iPhone" posts. or the friends that have signed up to sell stuff and keep pushing their products in every single post! Why do stay on Facebook again?? :) Popped over from PoCoLo

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  2. I love this and found myself nodding the entire way through. I hate Facebook for luring us in with all this rubbish - one of the worst things at the moment is those posts that say "If you love your daughter, click 'like'" - of course we love our daughters but why does 'liking' a picture make it more meaningful?! I always refuse to join in with that. I regularly make the odd cull but like you say, never make it public - what's the point? I don't share anything private on facebook anymore, largely due to my daughter now getting her own account. I have also had a stern talk with her about being careful with what you put on there and 'like' particularly as her Great Grandmother is also a friend! Great post :)

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    1. Thanks Suzanne I really enjoyed writing it! Great Grandma sounds a pretty cool lady...mine struggled with a cordless phone!!!

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  3. Great post. I hate all that 'can't talk about it on here, babe/ hun' nonsense!

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  4. such a good one! well done you, and yeah - agreed ! :)

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    1. Thank you - there were some brilliant link ups to this post...we all had a lot to get off our chests I think!! :)

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  5. So true! I hate the why did you unfriend me messages and e-mails...

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    1. I feel like just reply "Because of this message!" :)

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  6. So true! haha I roll my eyes every time someone says "if you can read this you made the cut..." oh fun... i actually did this link up too! I found you through the blog hop :)

    Happy Friday!

    www.msnancypants.blotspot.com

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    1. Hi Nicole thanks for finding me...looking forward to getting to know you & your blog x

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  7. this made me laugh and i can so relate to this! lol

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  8. hahaha! I can so relate to that....I have a "friend" on my FB who at least once a week declares she's had enough and deactivating her account only to be back the next day! Grow up!!

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    1. Why do we hold onto these people?!! Thanks for commenting Kim :)

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  9. Visiting from the Dwelling Tree Hop! Now following via Bloglovin' and G+.

    I would love to have you on my weekly Bloglovin' hop, too. Come drop by:

    Bloglovin' Blog Hop

    Take care,
    Meg
    Happy Kids, Inc

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    1. Hi Meg, thanks for following...I'll be sure to link up :)

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  10. Good words of wisdom! I love Facebook, but many of the things you've mentioned bother me too. I also hate when people write a post about how their significant other is so awful, how it is time we know the truth about them, they've said and done all these wicked things, etc, and everyone replies with sympathetic and supportive comments... and then the next week it is all, "I'm so grateful to have So-And-So in my life, he's just the greatest, I am so lucky, blah blah blah!"

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    1. Hi - yeah that's a really bad one...two of my friends once played out their entire break up on Facebook...dragging in friends & family along the way...so wrong!

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  11. Oh the "vaguebooking" does my head in!! I also have one "friend" that claimed she didn't know I was having a brain scan on Friday because she hadn't been on there for ages...how come I know what she had for tea every night (with photos!) and how peed off she was with noisy neighbours and how well her daughter was doing at school then?! ;) Great post, maybe a good job I didn't see the link :)

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    1. Hi Lisa, I can only imagine how frustrating that is...de-friend session due I think?! Hope Friday went ok for you x

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  12. All very true! I am beginning to really dislike FB I have to say #PoCoLo

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