I believe it was the time when I went from 500 Facebook friends down to around 30 friends, because I really couldn’t get used to so much stupidity. I deleted every single idiot who thought I would be interested to watch them drinking beer. I always asked myself why I would have so much Facebook friends, but the beer challenge was the drop in the bucket and I decided to only have close friends and the family in my friend list and removed the majority of the other people. Since then there was so much less stupidity posted in my timeline.
Not that I use Facebook excessively, but when I log in, I want to find interesting posts and comments of people who are close to me. To be honest, I never really understood Facebook, it’s probably like it’s called, a book where you can collect faces, at least if you want to. Back then it went so far that I met a person one or two times and I got offered a friend request, until I ended up with hundreds of people in the book. I think the beer challenge was one of many reasons that made me realize that I don’t even need to know the whole city and my neighbor.
As a blogger, I can just follow people who share stories I am interested in, but random friend requests on Facebook never made sense to me. Since I went the “quality over quantity” route on Facebook, it’s just sad that I can not laugh about the widespread stupidity anymore, but that is totally fine. Oh, and by the way, I sometimes enjoy a beer too, it’s just that I am not really into watching people drink a beer.