Real Friends Vs Facebook Friends

For a very long time i had always depended the comfort of my friends. This was true through out my childhood as well as my dreaded per and teen years in fitting in a group. But now that i am 30 years old my friends have been either coming from people I work with or in some cases people who meet on Facebook on my buddy's friend's list on the site. I do go out and I do meet people in person but sometimes I get the feeling that they rather have a social life in the Internet instead of an 1 or 1 or outside group activity. Case in point i remember one time being at a party where a group of women ....not little teen girls....grown ass women where taking pictures as if they were a paparazzi instead of enjoying the moments at the actual party. So after the party is over they rushing back home so they can post up of how much of a good time they had. I'm not going to lie ..i too have fallen into the trappings... Last week I shut down my facebook to see how many people i have as actual real friends without the Internet. I was surprised that only 2 of the 261 friends on facebook actually contacted me and continue to be friends after the facebook been deleted. Where the rest care less if i was even on the website, it kinda makes you think that what is meant to keep people together...seems more like something to keep people apart. Now that I have deleted my facebook page i do feel i have a lot more time in my hands and that i am not reading today's gossip, comments and updated photos. I wonder once you start to know to much about a person on the Internet then what do you have to talk about when you meet them in person. Now with my free time I am going to focus more on my films that i am working on and just meet people when I come across them on the street instead of internet social sites, that includes e-harmony.