Facebook purge

Yes, I'm posting twice in one day, despite my crazy busy, boring daily life. I'm actually just shirking my chores to do while the little ones are asleep.

I got invited to something on Facebook. Invitations are nice- they make me feel like people think about me. It's very sweet to get an invitation to a bday party or something, even if I know I can't make it.

But this particular invitation was to "like" a page. And it was from someone who I hadn't seen or spoke to in over 7 years. I'm slightly guilty here- I was the one who friend-requested him. In hindsight, I should have just sent a message saying hello instead of the request. Now I'm stuck with his mass-invites to crap I don't care about.

After very careful consideration, I had to recently delete an artist friend of mine. I liked him very much and I think he's very talented, but the constant invites to shows and galleries, plus the million posts about him being on the radio and stuff, got to be annoying. I hadn't heard anything from him since college, and even after becoming FB friends, no wall posts or messages or even a simple hello.

So I made a decision. I will be deleting friends who do any of the following:

1. Mass-invite me to events when I haven't spoken to them in years. I won't delete all mass-invite people- just the ones that only mass-invite me. I didn't become a FB friend just to boost someone's fan base.

2. Invite me to take a quiz... and another... and another... and another. One thoughtfully chosen quiz is fine, I won't get annoyed by that. But asking me to take a quiz about which Twilight character I am, and which Twilight movie I like best, and which vampire movie is best, and who would play me in a movie about vampires (get the point?) is a little nuts.

3. TMI updates. I like to know what people are up to, but I don't like to know everything they are up to. So if you post about your sex life, or your annual exam, or the fight you are in with your significant other (who also happens to be friends with me, and responds to your post, and you two are duking it out on my homepage), you're getting the ax.

4. Minute-by-minute updaters. Again, I'm interested in what people are up to, but not that interested. Besides, isn't that what Twitter is for? I don't really want to know that you got up this morning, then did laundry, then ate cereal, and now are starting to get to work on the backyard. Then several hours later that you are sweating on a hot day and cooking some dinner, then chilling out with your husband in your hot tub. Seriously, if you update more than once a day (unless it's something very big), it's too much.

*****Addition: Anyone one on the east coast that ruins the ending of a season of American Idol or Biggest Loser, etc. Thanks a lot, guys.