How do you?

Ok, so in this day and age everything has become more digital and electronic. Bills can be paid online, movies can be streamed online, and it is easier to stay in touch with people. That being said, when do you cut the ties with the said friends on Facebook? When do you say, enough is enough?

This issue has been on my mind lately, ever since my lab partners and I did a survey about Facebook for our psych lab. I realized that we depend on social networks more and more. For some, our lives revolve around them; we constantly update them, post our pictures, play games, set up events and yes of course, keep in touch. Everyone is always in the know of everyone else's business, and sometimes it's not official unless it's online, like relationship statuses (do not!!! get me started). Really though??

So, that being said, how do you delete someone that you're not friends with anymore? Do you just go through your friend list and delete people because you don't talk to them anymore (whether its online or offline), or do you delete people because they have pissed you off and you don't want to be friends with them? Because there are a couple of people, that I do not want in my life anymore; I (1) don't talk to them, (2) don't like them, (3) don't know them that well (but then why are we friends online in the first place? don't ask me), or (4) don't any reminders of them in my life (whether its online or off). Offline, I can't control if we run into each other or not, or if I happen to come across something that mentions them. But online, that's a different world and I CAN control with whom I come into contact with and I choose how much information I get to share with them.

The thing is, I like to go on their page and see what they're up too because I don't have any other way of communicating with them. Man, I don't know. But I would like to remove some "friends" off my friend list, be like... "GOOD GRIEF!! I CAN NOT STAND YOU!! DEUCES"... we shall see.. won't we?