Random Thought About Facebook

Is Facebook turning us into 5-year-olds?

I like Facebook. Some may say, I'm obsessed with Facebook. I have it on my Blackberry. I regularly update my status. I use it to stay in touch with friends. I use it to communicate with my students (let's be honest, most of them check Facebook more often than their e-mail) and to advertise for events. I also use it to stay in touch with my family and friends in Austria.

But lately, I've been wondering what Facebook does to our maturity level? Facebook makes it so easy to be passive aggressive. Oh, you did something I didn't like - let me de-friend you. Seriously???

I get that sometimes people just end up with too many friends (some may argue, my 778 are too many...LoL) and so they go through and delete the people they don't talk to. Others just want to keep their number of Facebook friends limited, so they know who's reading their information and it becomes more personal. That's cool. But what about those, who after a disagreement, just end up de-friending you? Having those 778 friends, I don't even realize when someone de-friends me. But then - a few months later - I randomly look for this person or go to a picture in which I had them tagged, and I can't find them. I'm confused. I think back of when the last time was I talked to them on Facebook and then I remember - oh, there was that awkward moment/that disagreement/or something along those lines. Hmmmm. Did they SERIOUSLY just de-friend me? Come on, if you got a problem with me, just let me know instead of me finding out months later that you no longer want to be friends on Facebook.