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I AM a very private guy.

 

I don’t like being surrounded by too many people and I hate crowded places; I prefer to shy away from attention, except for the occasional drama with my friends; I don’t like photos of me taken unless I look a million-dollars in them; I don’t like divulging too much personal information and I certainly don’t need to have hundreds of ‘friends’ because its too complicating.

 

To me, friends are people that I’ve known for a certain period of time and we have grown to understand each other well. I feel comfortable with my friends and I do treasure them.

 

It is possible to have 100 persons that I know but not possible to have 100 friends at any one time…

 

That is why I cannot understand the extremely loosely-used word “friends” in networking sites like Facebook or MySpace, etc. Why do people get all excited about collecting ‘hearts’ and ‘friends’?

 

I signed up for Facebook about 2 years ago and was shocked that despite having limited information and with no photo or real name, I was tracked down by somebody I used to know who had absolutely nothing to do with the two Facebook ‘friends’ I was linked to.

 

I proceeded to delete my profile immediately.

 

Each time I tell people I do not have a Facebook account, they will go on to tell me why I should – the benefits of finding a life-partner or one night stands or just simply to know more people. These sites have just too many bells and whistles; so many functions, so many buttons, so many tabs, so many colours, so many pictures and so many updates but I’m just not made to process that much gimmicks!

 

As private as I may be, I know my [unflattering] photos are floating around in my friends’ Facebook. I have served many verbal cease-and-desist orders against them but to no avail. However, I shalt stay partial to and not judge my friends who aim to collect 1000 ‘hearts’ in a week…

 

That’s what friends are for.