Top Friends

One of the most annoying features that facebook now has is - Top Friends.

You can choose up to 24 people and list them as your "top friends."

Now, what exactly is YOUR requirement for "TOP friends?"

I understand that people have different requirements based on their character, personality, interest, standards, values, etc, and so, I am willing to accept that some people can easily fill up a box of 24 friends as your TOP friends.

I, on the other hand, cannot do so easily. I rate top friends the way I rate best friends. Remember the days in primary school, when almost every girl (less boys because maybe the think it is sissy?) has a diary that contains pages of friendster-like profile?

Some rate their friends according to friends, good friends, best friends.

The more extreme ones rate their friends as friends, good friends, best friends (bf), best best friends (bbf), best best best friends (bbbf).

My friends rating were simple and straight to the point - best friends, enemies (normally the guys who liked me but I dislike. In truth, I didn't really consider anyone an enemy or have a experience an acute hatred for someone.) I hated to fill up the friends rating portion because I was aware that friends come and go and writing it down would be a grave mistake as if giving evidence that yes, you are my best friend FOREVER. But I flipped through the profiles of others and I succumb to the notion that the friends rating portion is a must. So I did it.

Let's fast forward to facebook and their newly implanted feature. It is an option. Choose or decline. I declined, declined, declined every last single feature. Want to track your friends? Come see your fortune cookie for today! How about astrology? Or track your travels around the world and let everyone know where you have been to.

GIVE ME A BREAK!

I do not need these extra features. I consider these frivolous applications for people with nothing on their hands. The only application I truly would consider is - Tracking your travels feature. Not that I care, but I do love to travel to places and boost (*cough*) about them silently by marking the countries I have been to. Oh, you have traveled out of U.S.? That's sad, let me count the number of places I have traveled to.

But, I don't want to do that. I don't need to boost because I am not comfortable telling people where I have been to when others have never traveled beyond their borders, much less see the ocean. In fact, I don't tell people anything about me unless they ask.

Top friends application are useless because it serves no purpose. Does having 24 profiles on your fingertips makes it a useful purpose? NO. It just makes someone happy if they are in your top friends list, like being popular. Whatever.

My advice. Decline the application. Just be happy if someone selected you as his/her top friend. What can you do? Everyone is different.