Currently Dil Diya Hai By Emraan Hashmi, Ashmit Patel, Geeta Basra, Udita Goswanin, Mitchum Chakaraborthy see related

Adding someone as a friend on Facebook has often been joked about as "making the friendship real." This is a total lie. I have around 300 Facebook friends (not a very large number, I know), but I only speak to a handful of them.

There are those that shared a class with me, and those that I have met once through a friend and will probably never see again. There are the "obligatory" friends that you add even though you don't want to since somehow your life will be made more difficult if you refuse them.

All in all, these so-called friends are just acquaintances. A very select few are truly friends. How sad is it that our feelings will be hurt if someone we met through a co-worker's roommate doesn't accept our friend request?

It has become quite easy to cyber-stalk using Facebook, and I for one do not like it. That is one of the reasons I blocked my mom on Facebook. She used to read my Xanga all the time, which was part of the reason I deleted it. She joined Myspace so that she could keep tabs on my sister and I. I set my profile to private.

Back to Facebook friends. I suppose that it isn't all bad. I've been able to reconnect with people that I haven't spoken to in years. I recently found a friend from first grade on Facebook (he's number four...and five). I'm also friends with a couple of my past crushes, but I won't go into those details.

Oh well. It's still better than Myspace.