Steven Hodson on the problems, or absurdities, of be-friending people (or complete strangers) via social networks simply to create a pretence, or appearance, of popularity.
The keyword hear is appear because the reality is that half the people that you either have friended or have friended you will forget about you or why they friended you in the first place. As for your own lists when was the last time you went through those hundreds; or in some cases thousands, of supposed friends and even remembered who the hell they are and why you have them in your list to begin with. At some point all those names in those lists mean absolutely nothing. They have no value because chances are you can’t even remember what value friending them was even bringing to the table.
