The Bitching Thread

[Zati]

Well, this has been on my mind for awhile, and now with the release of the latest South Park episode (loved it as always), I just decided to post this.

Okay, all these people in "Real life," Facebook, Myspace, and other social networking sites claim to have so many friends and so on, but are they really all your "friends"?

I think a lot of these people confuse an acquaintance for a friend. 'Cause to me, I don't consider so many people to be actual "friends." The other people are more or less acquaintances. People that I know, see every now and then, make small talk and stuff, but I don't really know that well. You rarely speak to them, or hang out with them. Kind of like people on MSN who you see on, but never talk to, don't remember how they ended up on your contact list, and vaguely remember who they are.

Friends are people that you're really close to, hang out very often with, share many things/secrets with, extremely comfortable around, and you trust them completely. They stick with you, and they stand by you. Close-knit.

Everyone always claim and say they have so many friends on Facebook and such, but there not. For example, this guy I know since HS (whom I consider a friend) is a Real Estate Agent now, and he has like over 5000+ friends. He constantly brings it up. But, in my mind, I'm like, are they really all your "friends"? In "real life" too, people think they have so many friends, and that they're so popular, but I'm just pedantic and think they should say acquaintances instead.

There's a distinction between an "acquaintance" and a "friend." I think some of these people far too often confuse the two.

I know, I'm odd.