{"id":7968,"date":"2014-05-28T23:37:20","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T06:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7968"},"modified":"2014-06-14T22:51:19","modified_gmt":"2014-06-15T05:51:19","slug":"i-have-no-facebook-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7968","title":{"rendered":"I have no (Facebook) friends."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So things are going as swimmingly as ever. On one weekend I got really dumped instead of sorta dumped. Went from \u201cnot feeling it\u201d, to actually &#8220;friends\u201d (which turned out to mean \u201cplaceholder until I find a guy\u201d), to &#8220;I found a guy and now I\u2019m ignoring you outright&#8221; on the same weekend that my credit card was used to buy gas in Georgia, not by me, and I don\u2019t know what all else is going wrong in my life other than people are actually stabbing me in the back at work.<\/p>\n<p>I also felt the level of disregard at the gym I\u2019ve been going to for 4-5 times a week for at least five years ratcheted up when they didn&#8217;t have the common courtesy to tell me when a guy I can\u2019t stand was taking the place over for the afternoon and I\u2019m the guy who does a lot of the cleaning and maintenance. When someone told me, \u201cIt\u2019s not your problem,\u201d I decided they were right, it wasn\u2019t, and I quit.<\/p>\n<p>That led to deleting all my Facebook gym friends, which led to deleting additional people who wouldn\u2019t piss on my ass if it was on fire,\u00a0which led to deleting more people who I haven\u2019t talked to (or seen updates from) in years, which led to deleting people I only followed because I was too lazy to ask them what they were doing via less impersonal avenues, which led to my ONLY HAVING FIVE ACTUAL FRIENDS (and honestly a couple were spouses of friends) and I figured that was too few and I deleted them as well. Turns out you can\u2019t have zero friends because they count you as your own friend.<\/p>\n<p>So there you have it. If you wondered why I deleted you, I deleted everyone. If you\u2019re not wondering you\u2019re either in the class of people who don\u2019t give a sh*t about me or the two friends of mine who have passed away since I \u201cfriended\u201d you on Facebook, and I doubt you\u2019re reading my blog.<\/p>\n<p>In case you\u2019re not keeping track, I\u2019m not having a bad year but I\u2019m certainly not having a good year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So things are going as swimmingly as ever. On one weekend I got really dumped instead of sorta dumped. Went from \u201cnot feeling it\u201d, to actually &#8220;friends\u201d (which turned out to mean \u201cplaceholder until I find a guy\u201d), to &#8220;I found a guy and now I\u2019m ignoring you outright&#8221; on the same weekend that my credit card was used to buy gas in Georgia, not by me, and I don\u2019t know what all else is going wrong in my life other than people are actually stabbing me in the back at work. I also felt the level of disregard at the gym I\u2019ve been going to for 4-5 times a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/?p=7968\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I have no (Facebook) friends.<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7968"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7976,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7968\/revisions\/7976"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.i8u.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}