Close Friends...a Facebook commentary

So, I log into Facebook to message a friend and, while there, I notice a link. 'Close Friends'. Now, I have many friends...fewer than many of you...more than some. And I love them all. But, admittedly, some I would consider closer. Close Friends. So I click on it and begin looking around. A check mark here...a check mark there...and voila! I now have thirty-seven 'close friends'. I close Facebook and move on to more important things. Golf on TV. Suddenly it begins. Pop...ding...pop...ding. My phone on the table is doing it. My tablet on the counter is doing it! What is this thing?? I'm an inquisitive person. I pick up the tablet. Notifications. Facebook, Facebook, Facebook...on and on. A long list. So-and-so has shared a link. So-and-so has updated their status. So-and-so has posted a picture. I look at the names. Hmmmm. Close Friends. I get it now. So I pick one at random and click on it. A picture. A sandwich. A picture of a sandwich. Aha! I'm thinking this must be one of those pareidolia things. I stare at the sandwich. Maybe I'll see Peyton Manning. Nothing. It's just a sandwich...albeit a seemingly competent sandwich. Looks like multi-grain bread. I see something green and what appears to be lunch meat peeking out from between the slices. And something yellow. Yes...no doubt about it...it's a ham and cheese sandwich. With lettuce. Seriously? A sandwich? Now I'm wondering about my close friend. If I visit their house will I see, hanging in the dining room above the buffet, custom framed by Michael's, a picture of this sandwich? Or...if they whip out their wallet, will I see, nestled among the wife, kids and Patches the cat, a wallet-size picture of this sandwich? I move on. So-and-so has posted a picture. I'm hesitant...but I have to do it. I'm an inquisitive person. I click. It's a picture of what appears to be a car...totally covered in snow. This looks eerily familiar. I run to my window and there it is...sitting my driveway...covered in snow. My car! Wait...no footprints. How can this be? Ah, I get it. Mine is not the only car covered in snow. There are others! I head back to Facebook. Some of these Close Friends (I love you...I really do) are getting un-checked. Some of them are over-posting. Some of them are over-sharing. A couple of them, quite frankly, seriously need to get a life. Now, before you all get 'up-in-your-cups' at me...I admit that I am outnumbered. I know I am probably the exception and not the rule. The snow-covered car got 192 'likes'. The sandwich? Don't even ask...