I was cleaning up my Yahoo mail inbox (cleaning up spam - guess what, i won several million dollars) and opened an update from Friendster (apparently, one of my friends burped or something). So I follow the link and log in to my friendster account. Yes, i do have one, though I open it about once a year on average.
Page loads and I decided to do a little experiment. I clicked the "Friends" link. Who the hell are these people? Okay, I did recognize some of them but honestly, I remembering some of them proved futile. Some pictures did help (I stared at one picture. after 5 painful minutes of turning my brain inside out, I realized it was a classmate back in high school. give me a break, okay? she used to be a he.) and the "Friends in Common" feature was a blessing.
After a couple of pages of browsing through old co-workers, classmates from college, highschool and elementary, friends from Ragnarok and Ran, and complete strangers (i must have been drunk when i approved those), among others, I gave up, realizing I was in over my head.
It's just sad. The human memory stinks. It betrays even the fondest memories of friends. There are no change logs, no quest logs, no detailed accounts of how or when or where you met them, and no rewind and replay buttons.
tignan mo yung testi ko kay Rica XD
ReplyDeleteThat's why there's a REMOVE or DELETE or BLOCK button there somewhere. If you don't remember them, delete them. Just like how you get rid of stuff you haven't been able to use in the past five months. Unless you're aiming for a packrat avvie in Friendster, then, by all means, invite and approve more.
ReplyDeleteLOL. What I was trying to say was, at some point, they might have been important to me. And I can't remember them.
ReplyDeleteI am a packrat when it comes to friends, but it's such a bitch to stay in touch with people you want to keep.