Hey guys, I see this unfriending thing all the time on facebook usually with some sort of note about wanting only people who are important to that person. I’m reblogging Kristin’s post because she has a really good point about networking being for everyone, not just writers. (Just for the lost dog posts alone, don’t unfriend) You never know when that friend you never talk to can step up and become your hero.
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I started out writing a blog about unfriending. That post became 2800 words and since I’ve vowed to do better about length? I cut it in half. Then that grew to 3200 words. So I had to cut it again.
Aaand then again.
Apparently I have a lot of opinions about unfriending.
After almost a thousand blog posts I seriously cannot believe we haven’t talked more about this. Unfriending. What an awful word. Un-friend. To be un-friended.
Maybe. Maybe not.
I actually posted some thoughts on the whole “unfriending” thing and there does seem to be a generational difference. Young people will unfriend someone who’s misbehaving then add them again later. From what I understand it’s like a time-out.
I will say that, us older folks?
It is NOT a time out.
I can promise that us older folks will take…
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Melissa Banczak 
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