As you all know I am addicted to Facebook, and chocolate, thrift stores, gossip, and red wine. I have a lot of vices none of them terribly healthy or helpful in my ongoing journey towards maturity. I may have inadvertently stumbled across the line between thirty-something and being (the heinous term) “middle-aged”, but I am happy to report that I still capable of being dippy and immature and dramatic as a girl a third my age. For example nothing can bring out my inner childness more than then Facebook; especially the topic of Facebook friend requesting.
I am pretty friendly on and off of Facebook. I talk to everyone: other moms, dads, nannys, strangers, check out girls, kids, pets, hobos, if they are warm and moving I talk to them. On Facebook I am pretty much the same way. I am friends will almost all of my old boyfriends, college friends, high school friends, elementary school friends, work friends, even friends of friend’s friends. When I get a friend request I almost always accept. Come to think of it I have only rejected a few friend requests. I always reject weirdo requests. Like from “Why Enhance”, "Make Cash", or my personal favorite “Iam Christ”. Only a very few times have I rejected someone who I know. We all have that toxic needy high maintenance friend. Right? You know the one. I collected a few of them over the years and have since happily untangled myself from their sticky web of guilt and dysfunction. When they recently tried to catch me again by sending me friend requests on Facebook I declined. Yes I did and of course I felt bad. But, I can't send them a message to explain, there is no way to tactfully tell someone that you don’t want to know them anymore? There is just no good way. You know me. After I decline a request I feel guilty for days, I still live in fear that they message my and ask why. Or worse I fear bumping into said persons and have taken to wearing disquises when I go to large public events. I hate hurting their feelings, but I hate conflict even worse. Nothing is worse than rejecting a friend request.
I am pretty friendly on and off of Facebook. I talk to everyone: other moms, dads, nannys, strangers, check out girls, kids, pets, hobos, if they are warm and moving I talk to them. On Facebook I am pretty much the same way. I am friends will almost all of my old boyfriends, college friends, high school friends, elementary school friends, work friends, even friends of friend’s friends. When I get a friend request I almost always accept. Come to think of it I have only rejected a few friend requests. I always reject weirdo requests. Like from “Why Enhance”, "Make Cash", or my personal favorite “Iam Christ”. Only a very few times have I rejected someone who I know. We all have that toxic needy high maintenance friend. Right? You know the one. I collected a few of them over the years and have since happily untangled myself from their sticky web of guilt and dysfunction. When they recently tried to catch me again by sending me friend requests on Facebook I declined. Yes I did and of course I felt bad. But, I can't send them a message to explain, there is no way to tactfully tell someone that you don’t want to know them anymore? There is just no good way. You know me. After I decline a request I feel guilty for days, I still live in fear that they message my and ask why. Or worse I fear bumping into said persons and have taken to wearing disquises when I go to large public events. I hate hurting their feelings, but I hate conflict even worse. Nothing is worse than rejecting a friend request.
