Bday

Today is my birthday, the big 2-5, the big quarter of a century. Days like these get me thinking about what a friend means. Facebook and MySpace are great tools to reconnect with old friends or keep up with what is going on in peoples lives, but it has also blurred the meaning of "friend". Some people's sites have 1000 or 2000 "friends" but how many of these people do they really know? It is quite easy to send a happy birthday when the site tells you when a birthday is. Is it really heartfelt? Personally, if I only get a happy birthday wish from a few close friends and family, then that is worth more than 2000 phony friends sending it on Facebook.