Over the last week or so, my Facebook friends number has dwindled a little bit. It’s not necessarily because I’ve pissed people off to where they don’t want to be internet friends with me, it’s because some people believe that Facebook has become such a toxic environment that they don’t want to be a part of it anymore, or it’s because some people think their lives have become so expansively complicated that too high a number of friends on Facebook is apparently detrimental to everything that happens away from the internet, that they feel the need to pare down the ranks to regain some degree of composure in life.
In other words, narcissism.
It may not seem like it, but I have nothing against the unnamed people that I am referring to. They can choose to make the decisions they want to make. What I do find laughable though, are their seeming requirements to announce such plays to the rest of the listening internet before they make them, which I can’t help but feel is unnecessarily narcissistic, and in a passive-aggressive way, fishing for feedback.
I’m not entirely sure why people bother to act in these kinds of manners, if they’re not making not-so subtle pleas for people to notice them. If you’re so sick of Facebook, don’t be theatric, just leave. If your Facebook wall is so overwhelmingly content-heavy thanks to having oh-no-so-many internet friends, then pare down without making a spectacle of yourself, or simply block seeing everyone you’re really not that interested in.
When the day is over, people like me don’t care, and move on, but by making an unnecessarily larger deal than it should be gives me fodder to write about how silly it is, as well as makes me think you’re drama queens.
The funny thing is that when Party #1 mentioned their interest in walking away from theFB, I opinionated that an overall loss of correspondence from a large number of people should be expected, due to the fact that Facebook has become so engrained in everyday life for a vast majority of the populous, to where not being on Facebook would be akin to not existing at all, to a degree. When they made their melodramatic warning that they were going to delete their account, the first responses were inquiries of how to keep in touch with them; which were things already explained in the prior post, meaning that even on the largest social network in the world, people still don’t always pay attention to everything anyone has to say, no matter how nice everyone tries to be to each other.
Ultimately, narcissism is not the most appealing attribute in the world to have, but it’s something that pretty much everyone has, whether they want to admit it or not. I’d be remiss to even joke about excluding myself from this statement as well, because I’m certain I’ve made my share of remarks throughout the decades exalting my own self-importance to the rest of the internet. I just try and think more about the things I write and what possible consequences or conflicts may arise from making them.
I’m not saying I’m perfect, but I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t announce to everyone that I’m planning on dramatically ending my tenure as a Facebook user, or planning on making friend cuts. A little too narcissistic for my tastes.
