Long story short:
Just to be fair, i write this time in english that people outside Finland can read and understand this too. I know, i don't own an apologize but it just felt right to write down some things in here..
I remember when Facebook became a part of my life in hmm.. 2007 ? It was a really cool new thing. Something that changed a lot of other things. It was exciting to create your own profile page, upload a lot of pictures and share them with all of your "friends". The great thing was, how easy it became to have contact to people you knew and the people you actually didn't.
While I was a year in the States, facebook was growing worldwide and really fast. I actually read a survey made in the USA, which told that if you were American teenager and you had less than 500 friends in facebook, you are NOT popular enough and so some of the teenies got depressed and God knows what.. I mean, seriously, that's just sick.. If you knew 500 people, can you call them all "your friends" ? Well, i don't think so. It was though the time people started collecting "friends" and who had the most of them was obviously the most popular and coolest one, right ? I have to admit, I was "collecting" too.. And by collecting I mean adding people as your friends who you don't know that well.
Until now, a long time after thinking, I only saw two options. Either making my profile so plain, that you barely know it's me or delete some people. I decided to delete these people, who I can't in real life call my friends, from my "friend list". I mean, who wants to share all the information of themselves to people thay barely know ? Who wants to keep exclassmates, exgirl-, or boyfriends, old neighbors, their pets, random people or just the people you know from seeing, as their friends and for example, share all these weird pictures with them ? Let them know where and with who you are, what are you doing and what happened last weekend ? For me it's not a competition or something great to have 500 "friends" anymore. I rather just keep the twenty of them who i really love and be able to share the personal things too, if i wanted so. And it's not that i dislike or hate some people, I actually don't but just to keep my privacy, because you n e v e r know where the stuff you post online one day could end up. That one day i wish not to see.
To one of my friends once almost happened a terrible thing and that was all because they met a person in Facebook, chatted and met each other. It was close that something bad happened, but thank God, it didn't. I think there's once again the same lesson.
So just think about it, do you want to keep all of your "friends" in Facebook? Do you want to be available whenever, wherever to everyone ? Well, I just don't anymore..
So dear people don't take it personally or get upset. Thanks. Bye.
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