Haters The New Imaginary Friends

Are you on Facebook? Of course you are. Everyone in the so-called civilized world is. Now I would like to pose a question to those of you in the 25-30 demographic. Did you ever think at this age people would still be so obsessed with things like "finding out who their real friends are" and trying to "weed out the haters"?  That's right adults, grown people, people potentially responsible for the lives of children still can't over the idea their friends might not like them as much as they think they do. They are concerned people have come into their lulled them into thinking their friends for the sole-purpose of sabotaging their life's dreams. This bizarre, delusional, and overtly narcissistic way of thinking has manifested itself into millions of memes with quotes about "real friendship". Yes lessons formerly reserved for children shows about the importance of friends are now being disseminated and shared among adults and they absolutely eat it up. Without getting into how fucked up it is Facebook literally has given everyone a digital shrine to themselves it has produced tens of millions of people who truly believe what they are doing is so important there are people who feel the need to go great lengths to derail them. As if they're all on some epic life journey that's going to culminate into something so grandiose they're going to need a list of all those people who stood in their way! It's as if everyone believes they're living a VH1 behind the music special that's going to recount all the minor betrayals they faced.  I wonder how many millions of people aren't going to get over this illusion of celebrity until they're death beds. How many people will be on a respirator before they realize no one actually gives a fuck about what they're doing, and the time to worry about who "your real friends are" ended when they left high school.