Facebook, a few thoughts

I've been doing some facebook housecleaning lately, commonly called "unfriending". Facebook calls it “removing the connection”. That sounds much nicer. We all facebook for different reasons. Some of us get a big kick out of a huge friend count. Some of us “really do have that many friends!!!”. It's all good. I don't. I don't have THAT many friends. I have friends that I used to know but am not close to anymore. I have friends that I'm close to now specifically because we connected, or reconnected on facebook. I have acquaintances, people who never really were friends, old and new. There's friends from high school who I don't think I exchanged more than 2 words with over four years. It's all good. The thing that I've been thinking about lately is another group of facebook friends. The people who have no interest in conversing with you at all. If I make an effort to comment on the photo of your cat and you have no interest in my cat (bad example, I never look at cat pictures, but you get the idea), why did you add me to your friends list? If we've been fb friends for a year and we have never once conversed, what's the point? I understand the curiosity about other people's lives, especially if we haven't seen each other in awhile. Btw...Kennedy class of '95, we all look great. Just sayin'. ;-) I also know I've been just as guilty. There are many many people on my list that I've never conversed with. We only have time for so many relationships. Personally, I've modified my facebook to suit me. I'd like to hear your thoughts, if you have any.