Facebook Sting

Everyone has Facebook friends they're not really friends with--people they went to high school with but never even spoke to, friends of friends who just like to have tons of connections and whom you humored by accepting their request, distant cousins you've never met... And so on. So it isn't really a big deal when you occasionally get unfriended; I've unfriended plenty of that kind myself. 


What hurts, though, is when you realize one day that you've been unfriended by people you used to be really close with; people who were some of your absolute best friends, who you talked to constantly and about everything in the entire world, who you've known for years and still talked to up until a few months ago--and in some cases still talk to (present tense!) in certain situations like the blogosphere or email or wherever. 


All friends have differences arise between them, and sometimes you find out things about people that you never would have expected. Sometimes people drift apart. But it's just kind of crappy to find out that, even though you've never fought about it or anything, someone decided that those differences were significant enough that they didn't want to be your friend anymore--not even your Facebook friend, which is just about the most meaningless type of friend there is. 


It's a sad day.