It moves

I just unfriended close to 40 people on Facebook.  That's a significant amount for my account, about 25% of my friends.  The criteria for selection was easy: if I had no interaction with them in over a year they were gone.  If I enjoyed their posts but didn't have any personal interaction with them they stayed.  There were a few nostalgic ones that slipped through too, even though I really had no meaningful interaction with them in any way. 

This is all part of a larger program I've initiated in my life.  It involves a reorientation toward real things and people, things I can touch and talk to, things that have a face, or cast shadows.  Of course I'm not cutting off the virtual completely.  This is in fact impossible- as Zizek has said: "Beyond the fiction of reality, there is the reality of the fiction."  I'm simply scaling back on a particular mode of the virtual.  Its truths are still present for those who have ears to hear... I've simply heard another sound.