I agree that friendships come and go – and that this can be a bit of a hard lesson to learn. I don’t have a problem connecting with old friends via Facebook, though. There’s no special magic to being out of touch that I feel the need to preserve. If there’s not a lot of mutual desire to be in contact, the interaction on the social network will be minimal – but might still be interesting, for what it’s worth.

danny,
there is a solution, and now that you are back in the US….
http://www.whoppersacrifice.com/
http://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/7oc4o/get_rid_of_10_facebook_friends_for_a_free_wopper/

As aggressive as I am in connecting with people in our industry on the various social platforms, the idea of connecting with somebody that I would ordinarily have left in the past via social networking fills me with a weird sort of loathing…I can’t and won’t do it without an overriding reason.
And of course, all these “past” people who wish to connect with you aren’t interested in real relationships…more likely, they just want to hook you into one of the “Kill the Monster” games.