This has probably happened before, I’m sure.
Facebook doesn’t send you a message that says, “Hey bozo, somebody has decided you’re not worth following anymore. Cheers!” That would be sort of cruel. But funny, too.
I realized that I hadn’t talked with a friend of mine in a while. This is a girl from a support group I’m in that I met a few years back. I hadn’t seen her around in a year or so, and we recently got caught up. She is particularly interesting because all her friends that I knew she recently decided to shit-can. She also stopped going to group meetings.
When I asked why she ditched all her friends in the program, she basically said that they all sucked and weren’t good friends. Whatever. I don’t know how it works with girls. I know that women kick people in and out of their lives all the time.
I found this particularly fascinating and wacky, but, truth be told, I sort of dug her. She was nice, smart and funny.
Then I got this crazy email today after I sent her a message asking how she had been doing.
I won’t publish it because it’s super-nuts. Also, when somebody thinks you’re an asshole, you’ll forever be that to them. Basically what went down was that she has a Google+ account. So do I. Google+ has this feature where they suggest people (sort of like Facebook does, but WAY more broad) that you might want to add to your circles. Since I have many readers, often times I get added to peoples’ circles. I want to be connected to my awesome fans, so I simply copy and paste everyone in that recommended list into my “friend” circle. I don’t look at the names, and I don’t care. I figure they’re all readers of mine.
So, in her email she was like, “Why did you add my boyfriend and mom to your Google+ circle?” She thought that was creepy – and she is right. Had I done this intentionally, it would be weird. The funny thing is I have no idea who her boyfriend is, nor her mother. Nor do I give a shit. I don’t look at who I add – I add everybody. Then she said something about, “How am I going to explain how I know you to them?”
Then she simply ended the email with “you’re deleted” which meant (I’m guessing) from Facebook. I haven’t checked.
And then it hit me tonight, “Oh wait, this is the same girl who threw out all her friends last year!” I’m sort of proud to be part of that group.
