The mother of all things that can happen to you on Facebook and hurt the most is getting unfriended. The dreaded "unfriend" is the one thing all self-obsessed Facebook users think about it. The minute a person realizes that they were just unfriended, several questions pop through their worried and stressed little head. Why did they unfriend me? What did I do wrong? They immediately start self-reflecting on their posts and start to obsess over whatever they posted rubbed the person the wrong way one too many times. All of those questions that you just asked yourself upon finding out your sudden so called "friend" betrayed you mean absolutely nothing. The one question that you should actually ask yourself: When was the last time I ever actually talked to that person in real life? Exactly. If they were someone near and dear to you and they cut off that social tie, then perhaps there are other issues as to why they don't want to know how many hot dogs you ate that day. But if the person who unfriended you is someone that you haven't seen since high school and don't even talk to you on Facebook, then them deleting you should mean nothing to you. In the grand scheme of things, does it really matter what number of Facebook friends you have? Or does it matter what friends you actually spend good quality time with in person? Being Facebook friends and actual friends with someone are two very different things and it's time that people finally started to realise that.
Philip Clarke is a 21-year old graduate of the SAIT Film and Video Production Program. He spends his days working on his novels and feature film screenplays. His favourite film is GoodFellas. He goes to the theatre to watch movies on a weekly basis to feed his cinematic addictions.
