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Originally Posted by Replaced_Texan
That you're not a friend anymore. But if he's friending any and everyone, then he's likely not going to notice that you're gone.
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This reminds me of the story my friend (on facebook and in real life) told me the other day about defriending some guy who she dated a few times, slept with and then didn't hear from for two weeks. Apparently when she defriended him, he noticed (sounds like the type to have been scouring her page fairly regularly but not actually calling her) and sent her some creepy e-mail asking why she didn't want to be his friend. If nothing else, this makes a strong case for not friending casual dates. I'm glad not to be casually dating in the age of My Space and Facebook.
As to who uses it, it may be because I've moved around so much, but there are people who I lost touch with from high school, college, Dallas, family members (I haven't done a great job of keeping in touch with my dad's family in the 20 years since his death), etc., along with all the local friends who tend to use it. But by far the most active group of people -- people who actually plan most of their outings on facebook -- are people from my graphic design classes. I have no problem with accepting friend requests from people I didn't know that well in high school (the only friend requests that have been of the "who is that again" variety so far have been people from my high school). I don't care if they know what is going on with me and it isn't like I really interact with them other than occasionally seeing their status updates scroll by.
It has been far better for me than My Space ever was, though I'm still there too mainly for a couple of people who are there but not on the Facebook bandwagon yet. And for some bands that I follow.
Some people fear the internet connections thing and some don't. I guess I'm squarely in the camp that doesn't. Probably because e-mail is by far a preferable means of keeping in touch over talking on the phone for me.
