Spin-off to MrBee's thread about twitter.
I'm fine with my friends having strong political/religious/other beliefs but once they start updating their status with pretty much hate speeches... that's usually the time to part ways.
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If they create excess drama in my life, show disrespect for my family, if they were a friend of an ex, or if we haven't talked in several years.
There was one person who was really put out that she wasn't invited to my wedding... she has 10 kids and I hadn't talked to her in YEARS.. she still expected to be invited. So she started badmouthing me and gossiping about it at one of my best friends grad party. Then came up to my face and said some really rude and uncalled for things. I didn't need that in my life so I unfriended her. She noticed and tried to friend me again and I ignored it. We haven't talked since. However, I do still talk to her daughter, whom I used to babysit.
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I usually mute, and will get to that point if it is all politics all the time. EVEN if I agree with his or her opinions. There's more to life, ya know?
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I usually block then first....especially if they share or post a billion random 'funny' quotes/photos. Don't need that all over my feed
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I hide posts of people who are just straight up annoying - and I actually have some friends that are not annoying in real life but are insufferable on FB, which is a strange phenomenon. I only defriend if it's someone I had to accept the friendship because of work or something a while ago, but it gets to the point where I don't see them, won't see them, and don't care.
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When they start promoting their business 30 times a day. And if I haven't spoken to/seen them in a few years.
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I deleted four people yesterday after getting really tired of anti-Muslim posts and rude political hate speeches.
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I've removed a few from my feed for continually posting upsetting stories with graphic photos. I think I was extra sensitive when I was pregnant too. But I don't think I actually un-friended them. They would have to make me mad in real life or be really hateful for me to do that.
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When they send me a death threat.
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Um, I unfriend way too many people. I love a great "cleanup" but then i have messages in my inbox "um weren't we friends" I think people like to know whats going on in my life more than I want to know about them. Peeping toms.
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I hide them. I haven't defriended.
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I defriend pretty easily. Anyone with excessive religious or political posting, anyone who I don't really care to keep in touch with anymore etc. I just did a 60 person purge recently. I make it a habit to re-evaluate my friend list a few times per year.
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I tend to hide people first if their posts are excessive or annoying, and only unfriend if they are offensive or inappropriate. I unfriend pretty regularly though just to remove people who I haven't had a real-life relationship with for a long time. Once I feel uncomfortable with them seeing my posts and photos, etc. it's time to go.
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I defriend people if I havent spoken to them or if they have nothing to do with my life. I have only defriended a couple people because they were just mean, angry, full of drama individuals.
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I defriend when someone tries to be rude to someone via fb status. Oh, please. I can't stand when people air out their dirty laundry all over fb too. Especially about their marriages. Go seek counseling and stop getting your acquaintances involved in your relationships!!!
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@Mrs. Sunglasses: I can't blame them though haha, I follow you on instagram and I realized I like almost every photo you post! Your instagram is as cool as pinterest, seriously.
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I usually just hide people. I'd only defriend if someone deeply offended me personally, or posted hate speech (like something racist or homophobic).
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I only unfriend if I go through and realize we really aren't friends in real life and I really don't care to be facebook friends either.
Ive had people defriend me due to breakups. Not us breaking up, but they were married to family members or friends and got divorced so they defriended me.
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@HeatherlovesKenny: haha. Aw thanks. To be honest I don't unfriend online friends but rather some people I went to highschool with or met in a party. I like my efriends WAY BETTER. That being said out of 375 friends 200 are bees. Haha.
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Constant posting about controversial issues, religion/politics/parenting. Posting annoying propaganda pictures about mom issues like breastfeeding, etc. Constant updates just generally bitching about stuff.
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Interesting, I am pretty picky about who I friend in the first place...it is always people that I have met IRL, with one exception. I've never defriended anyone and the ones that have defriended my have deactivated their profiles.
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@Baby Boy Mom: Ugh yes. I had a friend that seriously posted about her fitness/diet business EVERY DAY! I didn't unfriend her because we are good friends IRL but I had to turn off notifications from her because I couldn't stand it.
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Bumping this thread again. It appears I was unfriended. Just makes me curious and paranoid that it was something I said on Facebook. Which is hardly anything opinionated. WTH?
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I mainly just hide people. I de-friended someone who friended me and we barely knew each other,then I realized she just wanted to promote her business.
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@Bluestriped Bee: I've had two family members defriend me before, and I know it's nothing I did b/c we live on different coasts and don't talk that often! One said she had a hard time seeing happy stuff with our family and it was to protect herself. So it may not be you, but more likely whatever that person is dealing with. Or they were trying to make it just really close friends? Lots of possibilities, but I wouldn't worry too much.
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Excessive cursing.
Excessive uniteresting, unfunny posts clogging my timeline.
Requests to play games with them.
Responding with rude or sarcastic comments about my posts or pictures.
Simply realizing we are not really IRL friends.Comments get deleted, FB feed settings get changed and uktimately people are un friended.
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I unfriend people I haven't talked to in years that have nothing to do with my life any more.
I'm considering doing it to an old high school friend. We are just SO insanely different now and the only thing she ever posts are photos of her "modelling" and instagram photos she "likes".
As far as anyone I talk to goes, if I'm upset with them, or don't like what they post, or whatever the issue may be, I don't unfriend them, I just hide their crap from my newsfeed.
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If they were an acquaintance to begin with and we have had no direct contact via FB in ages (6 months +). ie no likes, no comments, etc.
This reminds me to go purge.
oh wait. @bluestriped bee: do you get notified now when ppl unfriend you?
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I really have to no longer like someone to defriend them. I'll block their statuses from being in my newsfeed but keep them a friend if they post too many awkward/misguided things. I rarely defriend people, the one that comes to mind was a college roommate, our relationship went sour and I was sick of seeing her show off. Besides that, I always my siblings/in-laws' exes!!!! (You know, if/when they break up.)
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I hardly unfriend people. Maybe I should. I have way too many people on my friend list that I haven't talked to in years. If their posts annoy me, I just hide them. What I don't get is why people unfriend me and then friend request me later. I'll get a friend request, and I'm thinking we were already friends so obviously they deleted me and now want to re-add me. Annoying!
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@bluestriped bee: Was it someone you were actually friends with or an old acquaintance/ school mate etc? I'm sure it's nothing you've done....
I periodically have a clean up and remove people I have accepted friend requests from who I'm not actually friends with - like work colleagues from years ago that I hardly spoke to anyway. Some people are really annoying - like I have a friend who is really rich but really lonely who posts links to all the overpriced things she has bought, including the price. I hide people like that! Then I delete people who post or share racist/homophobic things, regardless of how close we were IRL. I don't have people like that in my life, period.
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If I just don't like what they post, if they post ignorant crap, if I find them annoying... When LO was born, DH deleted half my friends on there because they were people I don't see IRL anymore and he didn't want them seeing her on fb and I wanted to share pics with family on there. It doesn't take much if I don't really see them IRL. If I do see them IRL, I've still unfriended a cousin for excessive political posts, or if I honestly really don't like someone!!
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Constant or hateful political/news rants, weird passive aggressive statements or drama, sexual pictures, posts that are constantly about drugs/partying/full of curses.
I need to delete people since I never plan on talking to a lot of people who I'm 'friends' with on fb and we had some super sketchy people at my high school so I just use their weird posts as a reminder to delete.
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Things like political posts, promoting a business, or always posting FB game crap will get your feed blocked or set to 'important only.'
I did recently go through my friends and if I was iffy, asked myself 'Do I want this person seeing updates/pictures of my LO?' If the answer was even 'sort of,' then off they went. And no, I don't think I had perverts or whatever on there, I just want to keep my family life private and only available to those who I really think are interested!
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This guy started a fight on my FB by commenting on a post i made about some kids that were out of control in A resturant. The parents didn't do a damn thing about it, they were playing tag for Pete sakes! Of course it was a sensitive subject but he was a dick about it & said kids shouldn't even be allowed out in public. It was a HS acquaintance's brother. I deleted him right away. He was a dick in HS & obviously that hadn't changed.
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If someone continuously posts political or emotionally insensitive status updates that get me worked up, I will unfriend them. Life is too short to deal with facebook drama.
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I just unfriend 5 "friends".
People I will never ever in my life interact with again in IRL!
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@regberadaisy: oh, no. No notification. I thought of her and I notice that I was unfriended.
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@Bookworm: Interesting point about having these 'friends' see pictures of your LO. I wonder if having kids makes you more cautious about who you are friends with.
Yeah, I'm not really that bothered by it. I'm thinking I just wasn't that close with her. Sad I won't be able to see her cute children grow up.
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I unfriended someone for spreading false and unscientific information about the fluoride debate here in Portland. People like her are what caused it to fail, and I just cannot stand it.
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