Over the last week or so, my Facebook friends number has dwindled a little bit. It’s not necessarily because I’ve pissed people off to where they don’t want to be internet friends with me, it’s because some people believe that Facebook has become such a toxic environment that they don’t want to be a part of it anymore, or it’s because some people think their lives have become so expansively complicated that too high a number of friends on Facebook is apparently detrimental to everything that happens away from the internet, that they feel the need to pare down the ranks to regain some degree of composure in life.
In other words, narcissism.
It may not seem like it, but I have nothing against the unnamed people that I am referring to. They can choose to make the decisions they want to make. What I do find laughable though, are their seeming requirements to announce such plays to the rest of the listening internet before they make them, which I can’t help but feel is unnecessarily narcissistic, and in a passive-aggressive way, fishing for feedback.