For Sale – FRIENDS, slightly depressive, hardly used.

Not the TV series where they repeat the same tired old catchphrases with a constantly surprised face n droning voice.  I’m referring to the phenomenon of the decade that is facebook, bebo, wayne, myspace and all the other social networking sites – including this one – where people spend time on a website creating lists of people they don’t know.

What is the point of a friends list if you don’t know the people on it?  Well it would make you look popular if everyone lived in your same fantasy but, to be honest, that’s unlikely.  Is it a competition?  If you’ve bet money or forfeit with your real mates that you can collect most people then that’s fine… I’m totally at ease with drinking games (I went to the drinkaware.co.uk website thinking it would tell me which was the best tasting vodka, I was disappointed). 

I was once told that my blog entries were too long and it puts people off reading them, if you are still reading now I admire your perseverance.

Another thing that bugs me is when people give these sites access to their msn list.  Cheers, I really want to be bombarded with emails from Tagged and all the other ‘please tell people you like me’ websites.  And it gets even more annoying when the people none of us know on your friends list do the same.

When I was a kid in the 80’s I was brought up to believe buying friends was slightly odd and not really the done thing.  When did that change? I’m told there’s an application on facebook that allows you to buy people.  I can’t say any more about that because I’m completely unable to understand the concept.  I kinda side with Wilberforce on that one.

Apparently you can also throw buns at people on facebook, if any of you think I will ever share my cake you can f*** right off right now.  For gods sake go out and live some reality.  I love the internet, it’s great for chatting to friends and passing a bit of time and having a laugh but only with real friends and not lists.

I could of course go into great detail about the rights and wrongs of using people as a commodity but if you know me you’ll know that I’m not really all that interested in anything of any real importance and if you don’t know me why are you reading this?...  You don’t know Tony Parsons and he’s a far better social commentator than I’ll ever be.

Do yourselves a favour and delete everyone you don’t know off your friends lists and add all your real friends instead, if you haven’t got any go out and make some, its much more rewarding than pretending.  The other great benefit is that you no longer need to share msn lists because you’ll all know each other already and I’ll stop getting a full inbox every day.

I was once told that my blog entries were too long and it puts people off reading them, if you are still reading now I not only admire your earlier perseverance but I also sympathise with your extreme boredom.