As I was going through my Friendster account this morning, I noticed I was at 497 friends. Digging around out of boredom, I added 4 recently met friends. Now I wondered if Friendster still allowed more than 500 friends...leading on to the XXX-FULL type accounts. So I cleaned up. Bye to those weird accounts I added in my youth...including "Subang" (So I live there, it is not really my friend), "Malaysia" (Ditto),"Actuarial" (Never finished it..), "1984" (Year I was born), "Eighties" (Decade I was born), "Pyramid" (Hardly go there any more...) and "Club Seven" (Ditto). That freed up a few spaces...

Though I must confess I kept a couple including my high school, university and the "CuteGuysClub". Or something like that. Lol. Vain enough to think that they invited me for a reason. ...... .... ..... . . . . .. ......... ... . .. . ......... . .. ......... . .. . .... .. .. .

So anyway. Is that what really happens in our lives as well ? As we go along, we clean out our lives, ditch some friends so that we can have new ones in our life ? I mean I am definitely one of those who advocate as many friends as possible but when is too many too many ? Should there be a limit ? And if there was would it be different for each person ? Can friends therefore be segregated into categories ? Level 1, 2 and 3 ? High School, University, Colleagues ? What about randoms ? Or friends of friends ? And as life goes on, I am pretty sure some of them would change status...friends become married, they move away and lose touch, they become closer, they die.....

So what does one do ? I suppose until a problem comes along, it might do just not to think about it much..After all, if one was kept to 500 friends (on Friendster) one would probably just delete some less important friends / open another account.....

But what if you wanted to contact some old friends...who have lost touch and are less important ?

I think that is what I want for Christmas. Almost every year, I have a little black book with contacts of people. Almost every year, I change a book, increase my contacts and the collection of books just keeps on getting bigger. Maybe I could get a big black book in which I can keep all my contacts. But then I would be a little lazy to transfer everything over.

Maybe I should just hire a secretary.

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