Getting Facebook "unfriended"

[LongTimeListener]

Jesus that is good, MTM.

I get five of those a day.

 

[Evil ... Thy name is Orville Redenbacher!!]

April Fools was 2 days ago.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

Give it two weeks and reactivate.

 

[outofplace]

Could be an accident on their part. I usually just "unfollow" people instead of unfriending them. Seems more...civil.
I have lost a few people that I checked in on after a few years of adding them, but they were never big on using it anyway, so I assume they just dropped scores of people at the same time.

This thread does seem to be a bit of an overreaction. I do what you do. I unfollow people. Had to do that to one a close friend recently because the political and religious crap he posts just got to be too much.

 

[3_Octave_Fart]

I'll take the Birch Society posts over the daily workout regimen, with photos.

 

[TyWebb]

By the end of my time on Facebook, I had about 350 "friends." In real life, I may have had 15-20 people whose well-being and life I was genuinely interested in keeping up with (not including family). So seeing picture after picture of a baby who belongs to someone I would only generously describe as an acquaintance became too much. Same for the workout photos, the bible verses, the vacation photos, the political articles and all the other bull**** that goes along with Facebook.

Sure, I could have just cut my friends list to those 15-20 people. But I have phone calls, email, texting, Skype and actual face-to-face interaction to keep up with them. That was the point that I realized Facebook was not worth the aggravation, in my opinion.

Also, my more attractive female "friends" had gotten past the age of posting trashy "Going Out! Yolo! Shots!" photos. So really, what's the point?

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I got unfriended by the chick who always posted bikini pics.

I'm still pissed.

I actually unfriended one of my brothers for a time because his midlife crisis included daily posts of scantily clad women. The posts themselves were not a problem, but it seemed like everytime I refreshed the page at work, one of them would pop up. I got so annoyed that I unfriended him. I've since refriended him, and his posts appear to be much safer for work. :)

 

[MTM]

I find it easy enough to scroll past unpleasant posts, although I've blocked a couple people who are overly religious or political.

 

[Mr. Sunshine]

I've had to cull a few leftists.

 

[Dick Whitman]

It's strange he still has people on his list who post the daily Obama rants and the daily GOP Congress rants.

I'm baffled.

Why not just block someone?

I'm really not offensive there whatsoever. I'm not abrasive. I don't cuss. I treat people respectfully. I try to be thoughtful.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

It's strange he still has people on his list who post the daily Obama rants and the daily GOP Congress rants.

I'm baffled.

Why not just block someone?

I'm really not offensive there whatsoever. I'm not abrasive. I don't cuss. I treat people respectfully. I try to be thoughtful.

You're overthinking this one. Maybe he's jealous of your success after walking away from journalism.

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

The people who annoy me the most are the ones who say,

"Anyone here who thinks XXXXXXX please let me know so I can trim my friend list."

I don't care if you're a neo conservative or the most liberal person on the planet. Rant away, if I feel the need to ignore, I will... But it's the people who think they can dictate what others do by threatening to unfriend anyone who disagrees, those are the ones I have no patience for.

 

[Baron Scicluna]

I got unfriended by the chick who always posted bikini pics.

I'm still pissed.

First world problem.

 

[LongTimeListener]

By far the most annoying person on my feed is the guy who mocks everyone who watches, discusses or does not hate American football. It started with concussions, but now every single thing that happens is proof of football's inferiority. It gets especially great when he talks about the higher moral fiber of baseball players. Of course, the same guy has posted about the travails that his daughter's underfunded private school faces and the hardship on families who **have** to spend $15,000 a year on tuition.

I know a few people who have unfriended him. But it's very entertaining since I stopped engaging and just observe.

 

[Buck]

You're overthinking this one.

Just this one?

 

[RecoveringJournalist]

One of my friends from high school posted something a year or so ago, "If you eat at Chick-fil-A, please save us all a lot of grief and just unfriend me now."

What followed was 100 posts about how delicious Chick-fil-A was. ****ing hilarious. I don't think she unfriended any of us.

 

[Ace]

I only unfriend people who post daily long-winded religious posts and nothing else.

Sorry, Mom, but that's the way it is.

 

[DeskMonkey1]

I once tried to unfriend someone only to learn she had unfriended me but somehow had me following her....I still don't understand how that happened, unless I never correctly friended her in the first place. But more than once she either liked or responded to a post/photo of mine.

I have less than 40 friends on Facebook where I have had as many as 80. I've pared down most of them not because I don't like them or don't consider them a friend it's just that I was seeing too much stuff on my feed and there was only a handful of people who interested me. And I don't necessarily like those folks more than the ones I unfriended. At this point there are exactly two folks who post political stuff remaining and one of those is my mom. The other doesn't share as much as simply liking and that shows up in my newsfeed, much to my chagrin.

Let me add this: I went into a deep, deep depression about a year ago, one I'm still not completely out of, and I had to cut ties with a lot of them because they reminded me of my depression. They were mainly former co-workers and seeing them reminded me of my layoff and how unhappy I was (am) in the shop I landed in. (For that matter, I had to stop following them on Twitter, as well as my current co-workers).

 

[DeskMonkey1]

I only made a Facebook page in the first place to monitor the amount of photos of my children my mother was posting. I relaxed my guard over time but now the only reason I don't deactivate is because of the 4-5 people out of state I like to keep up with.

 

[TheSportsPredictor]

It's strange he still has people on his list who post the daily Obama rants and the daily GOP Congress rants.

I'm baffled.

Why not just block someone?

I'm really not offensive there whatsoever. I'm not abrasive. I don't cuss. I treat people respectfully. I try to be thoughtful.

Sounds like you act there as you act here.