"Friends"

Last week my family watched a great movie called Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium. Dustin Hoffman was fantastic in this movie and it really got me thinking about friends. In the movie, several friendless characters are touched and changed when someone calls them their friend.

It got me thinking about facebook. We ask people to be our "friends" whom we have met for a few days and maybe will never see again, but there they remain on our list of "friends". Have we become too floosy with our words?

Who among your facebook friends would you call if you had a flat tire? Who would you call if your boyfriend just broke up with you and you needed to talk, or if you just got a great new job? Who would you hope would call if one of these happened to them?

I don't have an answer, just a thought to send out to the void. I guess, in a way, I should scold myself for opening myself up to the whole world - should I just reserve my thoughts for my real friends?

Blast.