relationships, society

Cull your “friendz”

Life is short, apparently. I actually think it’s fairly long (f we take average life expectancy)…but hey who am I to argue?

I saw an article last week which was basically one of those life coach rants about “20 things to do to improve your life”. It was in some low-brow tabloid, so I can’t find it on the interwebs, because tabloids can’t use the intarnet. One of the “things to do” had particular resonance for me, it basically said stop wasting your time with people you don’t actually like, which whilst appearing quite obvious…got me thinking…

Now that we have all calmed down after the initial flurry that was social networking sites breaking the mainstream, it’s now time to take stock…why the fuck do I have 8032 friends? WHO THE FUCK are these people!? It’s time for the cull, it’s time to get back to reality and remove our connections with people who frankly, we’re never gonna speak to or ever gonna sleep with…face it, it’s fucking futile and by no means measures how likeable you are as a person.

Secondly, being in London I meet (i.e. have proper engagement with) approximately 10 new people on average a month. That’s 120 people a year. It’s not sustainable for me to be friends with all these people. So what I’m going to do, for a truly happy 2008, is sit down and work out who I actually and truly like spending time with. I think us Brits are too polite and emotionally retarded at times to say – “you know what, we used to have a good time but to be honest – I just don’t get where the fuck you’re coming from anymore! So let’s just give it a rest, yeah?”. Or even more severe “I don’t remember how we became friends/boyfriend&girlfriend/married but I just don’t reallllly find you very interesting, so shall we call it a day?”.

I’ve already implemented part 1 and reduced my facebook friends significantly and deleted my myspazz account. Next I’m gonna stop replying to texts/emails/facebook pokes from people that I just don’t want up in my World anymore. It’s better for everyone in the long term because in the immortal words of Sub Sub, if there ain’t no love, there ain’t no use…

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