Top Friends

The other day I was looking at one of my best friend’s Facebook accounts and saw that she changed her Top Friends. She is my second friend on my Facebook account and I used to be her first friend on her Top Friends on her Facebook account. However, the other day when I looked at her Top Friends, I noticed that she moved me to be her 5th friend on her Facebook. I got kind of offended when I realized this. After I saw this, I moved her down to my 5th friend as well.

I started to laugh at myself when I thought about how dramatic I was being about something so stupid as being someone’s number 1 friend on Facebook. This made me think about the “Friends, friendsters, and top 8: writing community into being on social network sites” article that we read in class. This article describes the Top Friends application as “psychological warfare.” The order of people’s top friends starts drama. The Top Friends application shows the relationship of the top friend to the Facebook owner. Generally, the first friend is closer to the Facebook owner than the 12th friend. The reason why I got pissed off that I was her fifth friend was because we have been best friends since we were two years old.

I don’t get why I got annoyed over something so stupid. It makes me laugh about how serious people (like me) sometimes take Facebook without realizing it. I feel foolish for getting annoyed about not being her number 1 friend on Facebook still. I am 19 years old and got a little bit dramatic about the Top Friends application. I can only imagine the drama that Top Friends creates with people who are in middle school and in high school.