10 Reasons You Should Delete Your Facebook Account

6. Our €˜Friends€™ Aren€™t Really Our Friends

How many friends do you have on Facebook? Are you one of those people who adds anyone who seems interesting, or are you someone who limits your friends list to those people you€™ve actually met in real life? Do you accept any friend request you€™re sent, or do you ignore friend requests from strangers? How about work colleagues, your boss or subordinates? Teachers, what about your pupils? What about people you haven€™t seen or spoken to in years? Do you cull your friends list every so often to remove people you no longer speak to, or are they still hanging on in there, years later? It€™s time to face a cold, hard truth here. Not all of your 'friends' are friends of yours. Even if you€™re a private individual who only adds people you know and regularly culls their friends list of any lurking hangers on, the chances are that the majority of the people you€™re connected with on Facebook are just acquaintances. Perhaps they€™re drinking buddies, or people you worked with in your last job. People you went to school with, or studied with at university. But they€™re not your friends. Real friendship is a close bond formed by actual personal interrelationship, and it€™s governed by a social contract. A Facebook €˜friendship€™ is just a two-way online connection whereby a virtual stranger can see what you post and snoop through your photos as easily as your twin sister can. There€™s a reason we used to lose touch with people before the advent of social media. It€™s because that€™s the way life works. People are friends for a reason, and friends for a season. But Facebook provides an artificial sense of closeness with people, a closeness that doesn€™t actually exist in real life. And one of the problems with that is€