ExposedNYC

I lost my cell phone recently and, despite the absolute common knowledge that I should have them backed up somewhere, my entire phone book of numbers. As I looked for alternate means of contacting friends, I discovered a new sort of hierarchy in determining the level of a relationship. I was first struck by how many of my MySpace “friends” I didn’t give a second thought to contacting directly. Conversely, I was shocked to realize there are people I mourned losing but was at a total loss for their last name.

How to tell an acquaintance from a friend, in completely non-scientific random order:

1. You have known them long enough to have actually memorized their phone number and not just what number they were on speed dial
2. You are not only MySpace/ Facebook/ Obsessive Time Wasting Social Network friends, but are in a special “cyber-BFF” rank
3. You know them well enough to realize that they don’t care at all about ranking their friends, and are therefore not offended when you are not number one
4. You never actually added their work, personal email, or IM address to your contacts because your computer automatically picked them up as a most-often-typed favorite phrase
5. You know where to find them without any form of contact- ordering their daily coffee, favorite lunch, or after work night cap- because you introduced them to the place
6. They are more worried than you are about the lost phone due to the number of embarrassing pictures you’ve taken of them
7. They interrupt your typing by knocking on your door holding the phone that you thought you lost, strung on a necklace so you don’t lose it again, and are ready to re-hash the details of how they ended up with it in the first place

I’d love to hear any of your additions to this far from all-inclusive list!

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