I have 22 Facebook friends.  That is a smaller number than reported by any other of my Facebook friends.  My Facebook “friend number” (the total number of friends of those friends of mine who share this information) is 5,156.  My average friend has 213 friends.  My most friendly friend has 1,336 friends and counting — his “friend number” is probably in the hundreds of thousands.  I must be his most insignificant friend-number addend.

My network is small.  I narrow-cast rather than broadcast.  I am happy enough that you, yes you, are reading this sentence.  You know who you are — you are one of my friends.  Hopefully you have not tired of being part of this small, select group.

Tomorrow I am going to Ottawa for a three-day photography outing with several of my in-the-flesh friends whom I have not seen in a decade.  I look forward to enjoying their company, and I hope to return with my eye refreshed and my artistic spirit rekindled, numbers be damned.