{"id":16323,"date":"2011-08-21T20:45:47","date_gmt":"2011-08-22T00:45:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=16323"},"modified":"2015-07-21T16:06:41","modified_gmt":"2015-07-21T21:06:41","slug":"facebook-friends-if-you-dont-care-about-my-work-please-unfriend-me-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/facebook-friends-if-you-dont-care-about-my-work-please-unfriend-me-now\/","title":{"rendered":"Facebook friends, if you don&#8217;t care about my work, please unfriend me now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve got almost 4,000 friends on Facebook. \u00a0I am asking you now, if you do not care about <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/Mission_Statement\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">the work I do<\/a>*, please do us both a favor and unfriend me now. \u00a0Really. \u00a0 Of the 4,000, 647 are on a list called &#8220;People I actually know.&#8221; \u00a0These include not just real life friends, but also clients, advertisers, publicists and other media contacts I&#8217;ve worked with in the 19 years I&#8217;ve published <a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\">Horizons Magazine<\/a>. \u00a0Some of them I only know as far as their name on the periodic emails we exchange, or a voice on the phone twice a year. \u00a0But I still feel a personal connection to them, so they are on the list. \u00a0A lot of people want to friend me on Facebook simply because I publish a magazine. \u00a0They see me as potentially someone to promote them. \u00a0They don&#8217;t necessarily care about me or my posts, or my work; they see me as another media contact while they are doing their shotgun spam approach to marketing. \u00a0So if you&#8217;re one of those, or if your main focus is politics or news reports or looking for a girlfriend, please unfriend me now. \u00a0Thank you. \u00a0And if you <em>are<\/em> interested in what I do, then you must be part of my cluster. \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/abraham-hicks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Abraham-Hicks <\/a>says, \u201cYou come forth in clusters with intentions to enhance one another\u2019s experience; and when you meet up with your cluster, it\u2019s really fun.\u201d \u00a0I&#8217;m all about the fun. \u00a0Andrea<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>*From the Horizons Magazine Mission Statement: Our purpose is to provide a forum to connect those who seek purpose in life. To use our combined power to encourage each other in our personal visions. To remind you that you are far more powerful than you can imagine. \u00a0To establish in the minds of our readers the reality of the mind \/ body connection and the fact that we participate in creation of the reality we experience. We do this by our intentions, beliefs and expectations, by every thought we think and every word we speak. \u00a0To promote the reality that we survive in consciousness after the change called death. To comprehend this, we promote the practice of daily separation of consciousness from the body via meditation.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=1519\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;m just discovering Facebook<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=2818\" target=\"_blank\">Managing Incoming Information; What Is Facebook For? <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3423\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook quizzes; every little bit of insight helps<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3192\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook posts; I\u2019m in charge of what I attract <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3568\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook friends to the rescue, helping me Excel<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3846\" target=\"_blank\">If a Friend Asks For $$ In Facebook, Ask A Personal Question<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=3951\" target=\"_blank\">You Want To Be My Friend On Facebook?<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=4795\" target=\"_blank\">How To Stop The Stupid Facebook Posts On Your Wall <\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/horizonsmagazine.com\/blog\/?p=6798\" target=\"_blank\">The Zen of Farmville on Facebook? 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