Tuesday, April 27, 2010

"Remove From Friends"

I would like to know where the intense desire one has to inform one's entire social network of one's every action comes from. "Walking the dog", "getting the mail", "on the phone with _____", "going to the grocery store", "crazy drivers" (via mobile device), etc. Whatever happened to keeping petty, pointless information to ourselves? I understand that some things, while seemingly insignificant to others, may be very important to you. However, I do not need nor want to be on the receiving end of a play-by-play of your daily activities.

I understand if you had a tough day. But when you complain about your tough, busy day every single day, I really don't care to hear it anymore. What's important to you has, over time, become very unimportant to me. I'm sorry, but you've completely desensitized me to your complaints and I have no empathy nor sympathy towards you.

Having said all of that, if you suddenly find yourself short 100 social networking buddies, perhaps it's time to reconsider the overwhelming amount of trivial information that you choose share with EVERYONE.