Full of cliches

We've all got a couple of "those" friends. You open up your Facebook, looking for something exciting or interesting going on in your friends' lives, and instead you get: "Jane Smith (name changed to protect feelings) is learning if u dont love u wont be hurt but u will never truley live". Seriously Jane? That's it? That's how you're feeling right now? Why not just permanently change your status to "Jane Smith hasn't had an original thought in years, and gets all her opinions from Entertainment Tonight and US Weekly"? Now, anyone who is my friend on Facebook is probably rolling their eyes by now. Typical examples of my status include: "mmm (insert food type here)" or "is busy" (I know, thanks, that was worth wasting 6 minutes of company time to find out), or best of all: "thinks her baby is the most wonderful and original baby EVER and wants to tell you about all the boring little details that apparently seem amazing to her sleep deprived and hormone addled brain!" And matching photos, great (as you prepare to stab yourself).

If you're nodding seriously in agreement right now, maybe we shouldn't be friends. NO NO I'm kidding, please don't un-friend me. It will mean days of obsessing and pouring over my list trying to figure out who you are so I can hate you back, and I will probably cry when I see you in the grocery store (you probably won't recognize me anyway since we haven't talked since that awkward encounter on the bus 8 years ago, but I saw the drunken pictures of you that your friend tagged you in last week), or when I see a witty comment you leave on some mutual friend's wall, because their status is SOOO interesting. I'll do better, I promise! I'll poke you and send you virtual gifts, list you as my smartest friend in that note and invite you to be my farm neighbour!

I don't even remember what I wanted to write about, but seriously, let's get lives people! The cliches aren't ridiculous because they're not true, they're ridiculous because if you are sitting writing them on Facebook 20 times a day, you probably are spending a little less time with the people who matter most, and having fewer new and exciting "moments of truth". I know, we all have Facebook to keep in touch with those people that live faraway that we never get to see, but really, let's try and see and/or talk to as many of our friends and family in "real life" as we can, and get on Skype or spring the buck for that occasional long distance call, because the memory of one friend's real live laughter is a greater treasure than all the LOLs we will ever have.