Have you ever un-friended a Facebook friend? Why?

[Anonymous]

I unfriended a slew of people. Everyone uses FB differently. I started out wanted as many "friends" as possible and made friends with pretty much everyone I knew. Then I decided I wanted FB to be a much more honest representation of the people I want in my life and have in my life. So I un-friended the shitty babysitter I'd had 27 years ago. I un-friended my brother's old friend's sister. Unfriended the girl who also posted on an internet forum who I'd met twice. I didn't like her, we just had something in common.

Went from over 200 FB friends to under 90. There are still some I'm not close with, but you can't unfriend your Great Uncle Morton who's so proud that he knows how to poke you on FB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I unfriended a slew of people. Everyone uses FB differently. I started out wanted as many "friends" as possible and made friends with pretty much everyone I knew. Then I decided I wanted FB to be a much more honest representation of the people I want in my life and have in my life. So I un-friended the shitty babysitter I'd had 27 years ago. I un-friended my brother's old friend's sister. Unfriended the girl who also posted on an internet forum who I'd met twice. I didn't like her, we just had something in common.

Went from over 200 FB friends to under 90. There are still some I'm not close with, but you can't unfriend your Great Uncle Morton who's so proud that he knows how to poke you on FB.

Can you still 'poke' people on FB? I thought they did away with this feature a while ago..

I've unfriended a bunch of people who did not come through for me in the greatest time of need, while knowing I could use at least some moral support. I got seriously pissed and got rid of them. Feel no regret at all, only relief.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:In addition to hiding her posts, you could also tighten your privacy settings so she isn't privy to your business on FB without officially unfriending her. Perhaps it might make her take notice.

This is just so childish.

So OP you have specifically asked this former friend via email or phone to specifically hang out and she has flat out ignores you?

That's what OP "specifically" said in her post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

I've unfriended a bunch of people who did not come through for me in the greatest time of need, while knowing I could use at least some moral support. I got seriously pissed and got rid of them. Feel no regret at all, only relief.

Are you sure they could see your posts? Facebook only shows you posts from recent contacts.

[Anonymous]

I've unfriended people for the reasons u stated.

[Anonymous]

How do you have people not know all of your business on fb..do you mean the "unsubscribe" button?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I've hidden people with crazy every hour updates, but un-friended one due to political rants.

Yes, this.

[Anonymous]

I unsubscribe from people I like, but who insist on posting crap I can't deal with (e.g., crazy politics) and I unfriend people who are either using FB to cyber-stalk me (like people from HS that I haven't talked to in 20 years) or people who have hundreds of friends and clearly don't pay any attention at all to my posts because all they want is more friends (not actual friendship). I generally use FB to communicate with family who live in far away places so for me it's a pretty intimate experience. I don't want 500 friends and I don't want to be one of 500 friends.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I unsubscribe from people I like, but who insist on posting crap I can't deal with (e.g., crazy politics) and I unfriend people who are either using FB to cyber-stalk me (like people from HS that I haven't talked to in 20 years) or people who have hundreds of friends and clearly don't pay any attention at all to my posts because all they want is more friends (not actual friendship). I generally use FB to communicate with family who live in far away places so for me it's a pretty intimate experience. I don't want 500 friends and I don't want to be one of 500 friends.

Whoa...distorted reality much?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I unsubscribe from people I like, but who insist on posting crap I can't deal with (e.g., crazy politics) and I unfriend people who are either using FB to cyber-stalk me (like people from HS that I haven't talked to in 20 years) or people who have hundreds of friends and clearly don't pay any attention at all to my posts because all they want is more friends (not actual friendship). I generally use FB to communicate with family who live in far away places so for me it's a pretty intimate experience. I don't want 500 friends and I don't want to be one of 500 friends.

Whoa...distorted reality much?

Not really. Hasn't this ever happened to you? I'm pretty sure the #1 reason people use FB is to find gossip on other people.

[Anonymous]

Political rants--number 1 reason to unfriend.

[Anonymous]

Yes. Didn't like her posts and didn't care enough about her and her family (we are still part of a larger group of friends).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Political rants--number 1 reason to unfriend.

Yeah, I have started hiding my status from some people who I know seriously disagree with me politically because I don't want to offend them.

Unfortunately a passion for politics is part of who I am. I don't post all day long. I limit myself (and sometimes it is very hard) to one post on politics a day, at most.

[Anonymous]

9:00 again. PS I hve unfriended someone(s). For dropping me after my divorce. It was very painful. But when, over the course of a year, formerly good (every weekend) friends stopped inviting me to anything, I merely acknowledged the reality that I had been dropped. Of course the folks who dropped me, if asked, would blame ME for ending the friendship.

The political fall out has been such that I would have been better off merely "hiding" them. I think I recommend that over unfriending unless you want to be asked to explain by anyone who notices.

[Anonymous]

I usually just hide. It's passive aggressive, but I'm afraid if I un-friend then I will show up on their side saying "Friend this person!" and then they will know that I secretly don't care about them. ;D