Friend removal
For awhile now I found myself somewhat annoyed with my Facebook friend list. When Facebook took off it became very easy to find old classmates, work associates and other people that you may have not had any contact with for years. Even Mr Anti-social me found myself with around 150 people on my friends list.
Well for some reason yesterday I decided it was time to clean house. If you are like me, a whole bunch of your “friends” on Facebook are on your list for pure voyeurism. You saw the name of somebody you hadn’t had contact with for years or they see you. One of you makes a friend request, it gets accepted and then you spend a couple minutes looking at their pictures to assess their current physical condition, glance at their bio to see how life is treating them and then boom, you are done.
Many of these requests are like two strangers passing in the night. There is no communication that takes place, only the accepting of the request so each of you can inspect the other and move on. Well I decided I had enough.
I spent a good 30-45 minutes cleaning up my friends list. I had a few parameters I used to guide me in the process, some of which I posted on FB as I was removing “friends” left and right.
Obviously if you never made any attempt to communicate with me you were in trouble. I mean we both had our quick fix, why continue?
I also removed people that do nothing but whine in their status updates. I do enough whining of my own with out having to read it from others.
People that have a cardboard cut out on FB were goners, meaning they have an account but do nothing with it. What is the point?
People that don’t post any current photos of themselves got axed. If the most recent photo you posted was from 1985 you obviously are trying to hide something that I don’t want to see anyway.
The nothing but “the kids did this and the kids did that” posters got hammered. If I wanted to be FB friends with your kids I would have made the request with them.
In total I eliminated over a third of my friends list. It wasn’t very hard to do and now my feed list is much more manageable.
Take a good hard look at your list, I am sure you will find a lot of fat that can be trimmed.
Yesterday I did some pull ups on the Iron Gym and dragon flags at home. I used the cabinet the 73 inch tv sits on as my grip for the dragon flags. Man they are a tough exercise but they build a strong core.
I am frustrated by my inability to completely heal these elbow/forearm problems. I have had off and on problems with them for probably a year at least. It makes progressing on my bar work tough. When I do pull ups my first few reps sound like tight string breaking as the tendons and muscles in my forearms unwillingly contract and expand. I have never seen a doctor about it but I assume it is some sort of arthritis/tendinitis combination. I have been trying to freeze the area at night with an ice pack to assist in the healing.