POOF hurts!

I can not believe that the 2009 word of the year is “unfriend.”  How can such a mean and ugly term become this years word?

“Unfriend” as in “to remove someone as a ‘friend’ on a social networking site.  Let me try to understand this, you invite someone to be your friend or you accept their request for friendship and then you make a choice to “unfriend” them.   Hmmmm….

This has never personally happened to me, that I know of anyway, but it has happened to friends of mine.  One of my friends wrote today on my Facebook in response to my disbelief.  She stated that her own family member “unfriended” her because of something she had posted on Facebook.  she said: POOF!  And I was gone!  She later wrote again that it hurts to be POOFED!  The same thing has happen to another of my dear friends too!

Are we so judgemental and critical of others that we can’t even post something that is our own thoughts and feelings without the possibility of someone deleting our friendship? 

I think we all need to take a look at what being a friend is all about and hopefully by 2010 the word of the year can have something to do with how we love, respect and honor friendships.

Thank you all for being my friends.  I will never poof any of you.  I always feel honored when you share your thoughts, feelings and suggestions. Keep it up!!