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The Great Unfriending

I don’t have a particularly large friend list on Facebook. I’m happy to report my number falls below the average reported in 2021: 338 “friends”. Most of the people on my list I have known since high school or even elementary school, or we were actively involved in some kind of activity “IRL”, or we are related. I tend to treat my friend list like my closet: when something new goes in, something old goes out. Add a friend, delete a “friend” I haven’t…