Monday, September 6, 2010

To facebook or not?

I have been thinking a lot lately about dropping facebook.  I am not sure it is really worth all the time I spend on it.  Today I decided to look at my facebook stats.  Here they are:

Total number of "Friends" is 198
Current ward friends is 47- 25 have never posted a thing to me
Childhood/School friends is 20- only 1 makes occasional comments
College friends is 23- 17 have never posted a thing
Family member is 73- Only a handful ever make comments
Friends of my siblings 18- only 3 have ever made a comment
Joe's friends 7- only 1 comments
Past Missionaries 7- i get occasional messages from 1, most are single college guys so I don't expect to hear from them.

So in all less then 1/4 of my "friends" really care two hoots about me.  It has done little to nothing to improve relationships with distant family members.  So I ask myself, what is the point?  If they didn't care about you before why should they start now?