In response to part 1 a friend asked how I knew they didn't like me. It's not about liking me as a person...it's about not FB "Like"ing me. But that is precisely what I am questioning...why do I place interaction requirements on my Facebook friends in order to maintain them on my friends list?
And the question becomes this: at what point does a friendship become a friendship? And, is one-sided interaction still considered friendship?
As I said, these questions are real life questions as well, but FB brings them to the surface. I have friends who pop up like prairie dogs from time to time, but I would never consider deleting them simply by their interaction. The very small number of friends in question are the people who I don't really know in real life, have requested to be FB friends, I interact with their world, but they do not interact with mine.
Does one-sided interaction constitute friendship?
I think the bigger question is about what constitutes a Facebook friendship, because everyone in Facebook has their own reasons why they participate in this part of social media.
For some, it's a social gaming media. For others, they collect FB friends like baseball trading cards (and the bigger the number the better). For others it's a way to keep in contact with real-life family & friends. Some use it to market their business, organization, or cause. While others participate simply because everyone else is, so they're doing it to. And for some, it's the primary source of social interaction that they have in their life, period.
Everyone has their own reason why they've signed on with Facebook...which means that everyone is going to have their own definition of what constitutes a Facebook friendship.
This question of what to do with the one-sided FB friendships remains in process...I certainly don't want to impose my values and expectations onto other people, because I scruff when they're imposed on to me. And I certainly don't want to become a slave to the "Like" button, either.
For now, it is what it is...and I will sit with this as I continue to figure out how the complexity of friendships in my life are defined...