Facebook has been instrumental in bringing people together and promoting a lot of bonhomie. It is common knowledge that on FB you can mark a contact as "Family," or "Friend," or "Acquaintance." At the worst you can mark a person as Restricted. An example given by FB for the last category is your boss! (FB is a place where you can restrict the one chap who places most restrictions on you!)
However it is surprising that there is no mention of Foes whatsoever on Facebook. (Though, I am told that you can create a custom list and can title it Foes or whatever you wish.) This lapse is most surprising. You must have heard the saying that a friend is a person with whom silence is companionable. And as our statesmen always remind us when one of our neighbors commits outrages, dialogue must be kept on with our foes. This indicates that a category named Foes should not only be there but that it should appear at the top of the list while Friends can well be the last one on it. It will promote a dialogue with the Foes while Friends silently enjoy the companionship. It will be wonderful if this category of Foes has suggestions emanating from FB after you initially seed it with a few of your best (worst) foes.
Having made this suggestion, I hasten to add that some friends are of the view that with the kind of posts that are currently fashionable amongst friends, we hardly need Foes. He was referring to the posts that are normally accompanied by images showing the originator in beautiful places and / or in the company of lovely and lively people and / or on the verge of consuming exotic / delicious dishes and / or inhabiting heavenly resorts and / or just looking too good and happy et al. Such posts cause some fundamental doubts about oneself in the minds of the recipients and foment domestic discord by fueling the "keeping-up-with-the-friends" syndrome!
Having made this suggestion, I hasten to add that some friends are of the view that with the kind of posts that are currently fashionable amongst friends, we hardly need Foes. He was referring to the posts that are normally accompanied by images showing the originator in beautiful places and / or in the company of lovely and lively people and / or on the verge of consuming exotic / delicious dishes and / or inhabiting heavenly resorts and / or just looking too good and happy et al. Such posts cause some fundamental doubts about oneself in the minds of the recipients and foment domestic discord by fueling the "keeping-up-with-the-friends" syndrome!
It is rumored that FB is not only considering introducing the Foes category but also seeding it on its own by moving some of such friends to the Foe list! What say you? Would that turn Facebook into Faceoff?
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