Maybe I'm missing the point, but...

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I'm pretty selective about my Facebook friends.  In fact, sometimes I wonder about the whole "friends" thing and if I'm missing the broader point.

I know there are people that Facebook thinks I ought to be friends with that, and I'm sure the feeling is mutual, um, thanks, but no thanks.  Then there are the friends I should never have, like my kids.  I don't need to be facebook friends with my kids.  They're grown and I probably don't want to know, you know.  Any more than I would've wanted them to know some of the things I've done in my past.  Sometimes things are just better left unsaid.  Nowadays I wouldn't have a problem, my life is pretty much an open book, but back then, well, I didn't act that way around them too awfully much, let's say.

Past that, though, I know every person I'm Facebook friends with.  Some of my friends have unfriended me from Facebook, too.  Hey, that's up to them.  I've unfriended a few myself.  But I do know every person on my Facebook friends list personally.  I may not see them frequently, but I do know them personally.

From time to time, I get friend requests from people I don't know.  Usually, it's about ever other month. This week I got two from people I don't know.  One was a mutual friend of a friend, but a young girl with a couple of kids.  I'm a thinkin' no.  Today's was from some woman in Philadelphia.  Same response:  um, no.

I'm always nice about it though.  I always send a message explaining that I usually don't friend people I don't know personally unless they share with me why they'd like to be my friend on Facebook.  This woman lives in Philly.  I'm a Redskins fan.  Just sayin'.  Anyway, I always send the polite thank you but no thank you message and I've yet to have anyone reply to it, so I don't have any "friends" that I don't know.

Am I missing the point of this?  To me Facebook is a great way to stay in touch, kind-of, with people I do know.  By the same token I know some that have hundreds of friends and maybe I'm missing out on that part of the experience.  Tough call, but where it comes to the types of friend requests I get, I'm thinking that my policy is a good one.

Given my past track record, it's probably best I don't have anything else that needs 'splainin' in my life.  So I'm sticking with my no policy.

Do y'all have any thoughts about this?  Do you ever friend people you don't know that Facebook suggests you should, or do you keep your list like mine?  Curious to hear some differing points of view on this and the blog is always more fun when you interact.

And as always, thanks for reading this thing.


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