So, it’s the end of the year and I decided to go through and clear out some people from the friendlist on my mainstream profile. Rather than just “unfriend” these people I opted for blocking them. Some of them, it’s just easier to not see them online (now that I don’t even see them in real life) and while unsubscribed, whenever I’d hunt through my f-list for someone or go through the phone book on my phone to find someone they’d keep popping up. We don’t talk to each other, we don’t comment on facebook to each other, what purpose does it serve to have this clutter in my digital life?
That said, searching through the list multiple times to block about 8 people (that’s a pretty low number compared to the past) it was a little startling to keep scrolling past the 2 people I’m connected to who are no longer with us in this world. They appear in my phone book as well and sometimes it’s a little startling scrolling past them but I can’t bring myself to remove them. To remove them would be to forget them and forgetting them is not what I’m about. It’s a bit of paradoxical thinking on my part since when I bite it, all I want is a big party for the people who knew me and then I want to be erased from everyone’s collective memory. A bit selfish, I know, but it’s in many ways fitting to who I am.