"Important" friends?

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I subscribe to eDiets and they have a daily horoscope with their emails. Sometimes, I'll read them although I don't believe everything (most things) they say. Well, I read today's just because. In my horoscope, it mentioned "important friends". That stopped me dead in my tracks. Important? As if there are unimportant friends? Here's what I read: "You've got plenty of energy -- but it's not all good! That doesn't mean it's a bad day, though, as you should be able to get plenty done and open up a few new conversations with important friends." (From: http://www.ediets.com/astrology/?sign=Aries&horoscope=overview&day=today ) How can one have "important" and "unimportant" friends? Aren't all friends important? I mean, we can know a lot of people but they aren't all friends, right? Some are just aquaintances. Some are co-workers. Some are family. Some are attached in one way or another to our friends. But not everyone we know are considered "friends". Needless to say, I was highly put off by this horoscope. So put off that I intend to write to eDiets and let them know that, wherever they get their horoscopes from, they need to screen them better. I doubt I'll hear back but it's the principle of the thing, you know? I respect eDiets. They've helped me a lot in preparing nutritious, low-calorie and, more importantly, good-tasting meals. I am just upset that they would print something like this because I'm almost positive anyone working for eDiets would not like reading what I read. Maybe I'm making too big a deal of it but I would NEVER call some of my friends "important" even if I never called any "unimportant" simply because it implies that not all of my friends are important to me. Every single person I know whom I can honestly call "friend" is important to me. Maybe it's my English background (as in language, not location) and 20 years as a proofreader but that term, "important friends" just rubs me the wrong way. How do you feel about this? If you were to see something like this in an email, newspaper, magazine, etc., would you have the same thought as I have? I think somebody needs a new editor!