Dead friends

Day 4,034, 09:14 • Published in United Kingdom United Kingdom • by THE EMPRAH

Hey.

Almost nine years playing this game. And no, this text won't be about what's wrong with me to be here for such a long time. It is about some dead accounts on my friends list.

Over the years I've accepted many and declined some, even sent some friend requests myself, and the list grew. It grew to 1100+ people.
Sometimes I wonder how many of those were multies. Probably most of them. But that's besides the point.
The point is, I've decided to clean the friends list from all the dead accounts (while I wait for the BH in RW against Greeks).

So, I've got in to my profile, in to my friends list all ready to start hacking it to pieces and there it was, the first on the list, my real life friend who invited me to this game. Good Spirit was the name of that account, Stefan the name of the person. He got hooked in '09 and finally managed to persuade me to join him in early '10. Like most of sensible people he lost interest in the game when they've introduced v2. A few years later Stefan, to whom I was a best man at the wedding, decided to move to USA and start a life with his wife there. They have a great little guy named Luka now, and I think that they are really happy. We see each other about once a year and I'm okay with that.

I don't know why it was hard for me to remove his account from my friends list. It's totally irrational. He is a call or a message away. Maybe because we often played online games together when we were younger and by chance this one was the last. He kinda grew up after. Or perhaps I miss his presence in my everyday life more than I'm ready to admit.

But anyway, I've set out to clean the list and I'm going to do it. At first glance there are many more inactive than active accounts there.

I do wonder how many will be left when I'm done.