Are they really "friends?"

 I know of people on Facebook who ask everyone they know if they can "friend them." Some simply ask friends of friends they see on the site. What a pointless exercise. The simple fact someone has thousands of friends on Facebook is just silly. No one can actually follow that many posts unless they have absolutely no life and to consider someone a friend when you have never even met them in person is ludicrous to me. The meaning of friend is disappearing. That is sad. It is beginning to be like when someone checking you out as the supermarket says the obligatory "Have a nice day." They couldn't care less if your day is nice, it is just something to say. Meaningless.
Grumpy old Ken