DANNY
RUBIN
Voices
HUFFINGTON
10.07.12
The
Perils of
Unfriending
O
NE OF THESE DAYS you swear you’re going to do it.
You’ll log into Facebook, head straight for your list of
friends and start deleting people. You know, the girl
you haven’t talked to since middle school. The random dude you met at a party who you haven’t spoken
to in five years. The person you haven’t seen in so
long that you forgot how you met in the first place.
Recently, one blogger compared deleting people to a
crash diet. He even called it a “Facebook cleanse.”
Getting your house in order is a great idea—except
on social media. The web has made us so interconnected and accessible that to delete people from
your online world could harm you personally and
professionally. Here’s why:
Every person you delete on Facebook is one less
networking opportunity down the road. Life happens
in funny ways. Out of nowhere, you could suddenly
need a person you haven’t heard from in a decade.
ILLUSTRATION BY FRANCESCO BONGIORNI
Danny Rubin
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