Delete a few friends, You might live longer.

Everywhere you look there’s someone banging on about how there aren’t enough hours in the day or they are offering you a revolutionary way to do things faster, makes things simpler and have more you time.
You often hear sporting clubs talking about being a business that has to make business decisions. What I’m suggesting is that each one of us is a business, a business that needs to be efficient, effective, dynamic and profitable

The reality is that 24 hours in a day is more than enough to get everything done, providing you don’t waste your time with superfluous endeavours. And yes, that does include people who you need to identify that are surplus to requirements.

Increasingly I find that peoples actual lives are mirroring their facebook lives more and more. Uninteresting, stagnant, grosely over exaggerated and over run by uninteresting dramas and opinions of people unworthy of oxygen.

Here’s four easy ways to cull a few friends in real life by assessing their psychological health through their facebook. Remember these are only handy suggestions and you may have very worthwhile friends who could fit into one of these categories, then again, you may not.

1.    Anyone who makes too many facebook status updates. Delete there updates from your facebook as a gentle starter. Then see whether you even remember to contact them in any way let alone remember their name after you’ve done this.

2.    Anyone who uses and abuses Facebook places or posts vague statuses to inspire comment. Be wary of key fishing statements like “so over this”, “can’t sleep” or “so tired”. Be especially careful of anyone who auctions off the chance to hang out with them on facebook. Think about the hundreds of friends you have and think of some of the disasters you could get yourself into when you say “Whose up for coming to the beach with me?” and the now psychotic girl you sat next to in year 10 who at one stage had a hitlist but wasn’t only half serious about it decides to say “yeah sure, I’m in… just text me your address, I’ll come around and shoot pick you up”. People who are desperate enough to open up that bag of worms are the kind of people who marry prisoners.

3.    Anyone that recieves birthday comments, sits on facebook for the majority of the day because they have an office job and then proclaims “Thank you for all my birthday wishes, sorry I couldn’t reply to them all.”. Yes you could have, all it would mean is that you miss the first 5 minutes of Packed To The Rafters or your boss might get the lunch that he sends you to get every day until a touch later.

4.    Anyone who posts status updates in real time about how much of a great time they’re currently having. It’s not a great time if you have a chance to get your iPhone out and post on Facebook. You wouldn’t have pockets to put your phone in because you aren’t wearing pants if your nights out were really that interesting. Don’t fucking post to tell me it’s raining unless you’re on the other side of the world. I’m all for others getting on the real time bandwagon but let’s face it, the truly cool kids are tweeting, using near to proper spelling and grammar. Oh and they’re making it sound intelligent and tweet worthy.

So… Complaining because you need more time in your life? It’s simple. People nowadays put enough personal information on Facebook that there’s enough information to psychoanalyse anybody, if you’re analytical enough in your saner moments to realise that you yourself are slightly unhinged, you could even do a self assessment.

If you’ve ever seen those status updates which go something like “Just did a massive clean out of my friend list. If you can read this, you made the cut.” then you know what I’m referring to. If this were to mirror the real world, friends who are to become former friends wouldn’t even realise much the same as a status update because they’d just be deleted, removed for ‘business reasons’.