As Lady Macbeth did not say, "Come, you spirits / That tend on mortal thoughts! Unfriend me here." If she had, though, today the spirits would have had the opportunity.
Today was National Unfriend Day. Talk-show host Jimmy Kimmel proclaimed today a day for people across the Facebook universe to declutter their lives by removing from their friends lists all but one's actual friends. In other words, if you don't know someone in real life, you have no reason to keep them around your virtual life.
A new holiday that celebrates misanthropy! We love it!
We think this needs to cross into meatspace. Think about it! No more messy breakups, no more awkward partings. Every November 17 from now on should provide people the opportunity to make a clean, no-muss no-fuss break with. . .whomever!
"Sweetheart, it's neither you nor me: It's just an unfriending."
"Listen, Phil. You're not being fired--just unfriended."
"Mom, it's been a great 37 years, but it's just not working for me anymore."
We'll see you tomorrow, folks: National Refriending Day.
I... 37?
ReplyDeleteI want to make up my own holiday, too, but since I hate holidays it would be self-defeating.
ReplyDelete@Anonymous: We weren't necessarily referring to ourselves.
ReplyDelete@JWR: So YOU'RE the Defeatist!