OH. MY. GOSH. THERE HAVE BEEN OVER TEN OF MY FRIENDS THAT HAVE POSTED THIS:

"Fake Friends Repost"

"No offense, but ... People are getting too fake on me . They only want posts, comments, or to see how many friends they can get. So let's see who will actually repost this. This is a test to see who's paying attention. This is a test to see how many people in my friends list actually pay attention to me. Copy and repost in your own bulletin. Lets see who the true friends are and I think I know who you are... Repost this if you are a friend...Don't reply... just copy and paste this in a new bulletin as 'Fake Friends'"

"True friends will read and repost this. Fake friends will just ignore it"

FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, ALL THIS IS, IS ANOTHER GUILT TRAP! ISNT POSTS AND COMMENTS THE POINT OF DEVIANTART!?!?!

i can understand the whole fake thing, but i dont think that not reading journals automatically qualifies a person as a fake friend. However, if you NEVER look at their deviations and just flat don't talk to them unless they talk to you, that makes more sense. BUT, isn't that more of a one sided relationship? If people are going to take deviantart relationships so seriously as to call an unresponsive deviant a "fake friend," THEN JUST STOP WATCHING THEM. Then again, if you do that, they may stop watching you. Then, you may go BACKWARDS in the popularity scale. THE GOAL HERE, PEOPLE, IS TO GET MORE POPULAR. Thats so more people can comment on your art, so you can improve with their constructive criticism, and become a better artist. That's why getting all worked up over someone not commenting on your journal or missing a few deviations is ridiculous! we all have our own lives, we're all VERY busy in our own lives as well as on deviantart. so when somebody forgets, dont immediately take it to heart and think "Oh, he/she's is such a faker!"