Facebook Cleansing

As I sat in front of the tail end of Christmas holiday television, I decided on some root and branch Facebook reform. Inspired by the example of my Dad who carefully manages a very exclusive list of friends, I decided I would “unfriend” many of the random connections (groups and people) that had made their way into my virtual life over the last few years. For a long time now I had found logging into the site somewhat laborious despite what everyone else waxing lyrical about it. I always felt like I was wading through legions of irrelevant guff before stumbling across a nugget of interesting information about someone I was actually interested in. So I removed about 100 contacts and the end result is that I am now experiencing something of a Facebook renaissance – it’s actually quite a useful way of keeping up with people! If only real life were so simple!