Congratulations, you have two hundred friends on your Facebook page, but which ones are really your friends, and which ones are just there to keep tabs so they can empower themselves from your sorrow?
Are you ready? Here it is, a vision of who you are, where you have been (even which stall you used), and where you are going (including who you are going with) all at the same time.
What more could you want? All your friends are in the same place, just waiting for you to join them in a post or live chat. You can tell them about your day, they can tell you about theirs. You can share your favorite flicks and quotes, they can send you a recipe; You can poke them to be silly, they can indirectly tell you to F*7* off (or worse). Yes, its all gravy in the world of Never-Never land.Yes, it is Facebook folks, social networking at its greatest.
If you start to see people randomly making threats on their Facebook page and it relates back to you, you obviously have got yourself a Facebook frenemy. Yeah, sure they could just unfriend you, but that's not the point of being a frenemy.
Remember, like back in high school, or elementary rather, nobody is going to tell you to your face that they don't really like you. In fact, they would die before they would dare tell you how they really felt, and how every time something bad happens to you, they snicker with delight.
Yes, these people exist, they are called frenemies. Their sole existence in your life, is to keep tabs on you and get a kick out of your downs.
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Making indirect threats is one way that a frenemy exists on Facebook, but there are others that are simply there to see what you are up to, and other than seeing posts they leave for others, you will never hear from them, ever.
Imagine this scenario, you are having such a great day, that you decide to visit a long-time friends page and post a greeting on their wall.
You wait for a few days and hear nothing back from them, but your sure its just because they are busy and you brush it off; Then something else happens a few days later and you visit that friend again to greet them, still nothing.
So a few days pass and you start seeing posts from the friend and you decide to comment on the posts; You still don't receive any word back from the posts or comments that you left for your "friend." You start to wonder if they really just don't want anything to do with you.
This is the perfect example of a possible frenemy. This is likely someone that is just there to keep tabs on you.
Now, out of all the people you have as friends on Facebook, how many of them do you think you can confidently say are happy for you when you post about your upcoming vacation, promotion or marriage for that matter?
Now think about it another way, how many likes or comments do you get when you post about something really wonderful that happened in your life versus how many you get when you post about something bad?
If you are really wondering about that "friend" that everyone but you hears from even though they never unfriended you, put them to the test by interacting with them.
If they don't ever respond, get rid of them; they are likely a frenemy that's feeding off your misery.
How many frenemies do you have?
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