Cats and friends

My cat has a hobby. She changes her status on her Facebook account. At the moment she is bored.

She once in a while receives messages from people who would like to be friends with a cat. Sorry! She is careful. She only accepts a virtual friend if it is someone she knows. That's how much she trusts people. If it's an animal, it's not that serious. Any animal can become her friend. Animals she trusts.

Often she thinks, how strange people are. They lay out their lives on the web. They open their Facebook site and read about what their friends are doing - and what the friends of their friends are doing. They create networks and find classmates and cousins they never knew still existed. They poke eachother and send virtual hugs. They get new friends by the programme itself, suggesting people they might know. They feel they are really connected. Guess that is a good thing, she thinks.