even principles can get confused

i am a person of principles, can't you tell? *smirk*


when it comes to adding friends on facebook, i only add those that i know. you can probably tell, from the miserable number of people i have added since i joined. that plus the fact that i don't meet people much everyday in my line of work. ants perhaps, numbers most definitely, dustballs a couple of them, but people, i only get to hear their voices more often than not. a far cry really from people i know who have hundreds and thousands of friends. i wonder. is there a limit to the number of people you can add? does anyone have friends going up to the millions? i probably should start another alter ego profile, just to find out the answer. i can add anybody and everybody. search for jane, mary, david (nah! there's this particular david i'm not too fond off. two, come to think of it), peter, john, and i'll add all of them. i'll probably be reported for spam activities even before i've started. my train of thoughts is racing away again.


according to my principles, i don't add people whom i don't know, friends of friends that i have neither met nor know of. a little freaky if you think of it. these are people that you don't even know your friends knew, until you see a little message saying that they exist on the face of the earth and will like to add you as friend. who?? then you click on the link and you see the common friend. soon, you'll have your friend's aunty's niece's boyfriend's step-brother's dog's cousin's owner's maid's husband's co-worker's patient's uncle wanting to add you as friend. that's where my principles come in. no, sorry, i don't add people i don't know.


pretty easy definition. unless you have a cheese-hole brain like mine. the people i know category is finely sub-divided into people i know and remember, and people i know but can't remember. recently, my number of friends on facebook have exploded significantly because i've found some old classmates, people from another life and time, which you can surely expect that i won't be able to remember all. names that i have brought with me along the journey of time, easy peasy, click the add button. but as more names and faces surfaces, there are some that i don't have a very vivid recollection of. errr.....who? ya, ya, i think i can faintly remember. a niggling feeling in some bottomless pit of my body that i know that person, though i cannot recall anything. amazing! my dna remembers him. that's why i've been having so much trouble trying to keep anything in my hard drive, i was using the wrong part of my body. anybody knows how to hardwire my memory power to my dna?


then there's inevitably the other group. the people i knew but i can't remember at all. that probably accounts for a very large portion of those who are not my classmates. i was a popular kid back then and it was easy for me to make friends. well, if i had known then that my brain is going to degenerate into a sponge foam, i would have aimed an instant camera in the faces of people i met and go 'cheeseeeeee'.....chee chak. these are people that i didn't see everyday, that i didn't have the opportunity to get to know of. not surprising that i wouldn't remember them, right? heck! someone told me that i once had a crush on his brother. i can only say that if i punch his brother's name into my memory bank and it comes out nada, zilch, not even a tiny niggling feeling, his brother couldn't have been very memorable. still, i accepted his invitation. i think i know him. if someone claims you had a crush on that person, you must have known him lah!!


so now, i have people giving me suggestions on friends to add, people whose names are only alphabets to me. i don't know if i ever knew them in the first place, or merely forgot them. category one, or category two. my principles are confused. i don't want to click, press the add button, only to have someone on the other hand go, 'who the heck is this? friend of my friend? i don't even know she existed until she tried to add me as friend!?!? if i add her, soon i'll have to add my friend's aunty's niece's boyfriend's step-brother's dog's cousin's owner's maid's husband's co-worker's patient's uncle as friend also!!'. then again, if i don't add her, i'll appear to be snobbish and cool. if i knew her, and don't add her, that's going against principle one. if i add her, but i don't really know her, that's going against principle two. now we know why a lot of people don't have principles. looks like i'm going to chuck mine soon.