"I'm Cleaning Out My Friend List!"

[smileyeagle1021]

The only time I was ever unfriended on facebook that bugged me was when a girl I had been very good friends with unfriended me when I moved. She never told me why, even when asked.I was sad.

Sometimes it is better not knowing...I had a guy tell me that he unfriended me because he, and I quote, "simply couldn't be friends with someone who is incapable of doing a psychic reading over great distances" and that my doubt in the effectively of doing a tarot reading over an instant message was "offensive" Sometimes losing touch is easier than holy batshit insane. Granted, there are quite a few people who unfriended me for coming out and leaving the church, but I expected that, you don't expect someone to get offended by your lack of psychic abilities.

[hinakiba777]

I've only ever done one MASS defriending and I did make a status update about it. But it was more along the lines of "I'm cleaning out my friend's list, I might accidentally delete real friends, if I do just add me."

Many of my facebook friends had alternate names, or they don't use their face for a profile picture. (to prevent facebook stalking I guess) So it might be my best friend Marc, but it says "Chester Starship" and it's a picture of a hamster. My feed was filled with people I knew in my first year of university, that I had not talked to in years.

The only time I was ever unfriended on facebook that bugged me was when a girl I had been very good friends with unfriended me when I moved. She never told me why, even when asked.I was sad.

[cindybubbles]

I've only blocked one person from my list of friends. ONE person. And it was because he was harassing me by trying to chat me up on Facebook and sending private messages. I've worked with him before on Captain N stuff (we were both big fans), but we've only met online, and this was in the early days of the Internet (when it became available to us masses).

[smileyeagle1021]

I hate the guilt trip messages, too.
"I want to see which friends are reading my page..." (Usually a "Copy and paste and I will reply" thing that requires you to think of a word that starts with a certain letter in your name. I hate those. It's almost always the letter "K" and I suck at thinking of words to fit the request.)
"If you are my friend you will repost..."
"I already know which of my friends will repost..."
"Only X% of my friends will do this..."

The variation I hate is the stuff that goes "like if you love Jesus, ignore if you are a vile sinner." Well, that escalated quickly. Or "I'm having a bad day, how many likes can I get to make my day better?" If the quality of your day is determined by the number of likes you get, then there is something wrong with you. My personal favorite though was my husband's birthday last year, I got at least 10 messages from people the day after shaming me for not writing "happy birthday" on his wall, and how I was the worst husband ever blah blah blah... why the hell should I post it on his wall when I can say it to him sitting 2 feet away from me?

[Andara Bledin]

If I'm not up against a cap, I don't bother clearing friends lists unless I need to actively use them for something.

In the case of Facebook, all the people I don't really know are already on their own group, so it's not like I ever confuse them with people who are actually friends.

[Lace Neil Singer]

I cleaned out the majority of folk on my Xbox LIVE friend list without warning not too long ago, simply because I not only rarely played with any of them but, likewise, didn't know them past "hello."

I need to do that to my Gaiaonline friends list soon. A lot of people on there don't even come on Gaia any more. XD

[Bloodsoul]

I cleaned out the majority of folk on my Xbox LIVE friend list without warning not too long ago, simply because I not only rarely played with any of them but, likewise, didn't know them past "hello."

[Rapscallion]

What does it cost someone to leave people on there? If I remove, it's for a reason regarding the person.

Rapscallion

[blas87]

Bump ba da bump ba da da da!!!

Another attention whore guilt trip today......and another guy doing it. Not a 16 year old girl. A freaking nearly 40 year old guy...

"Alright, it's time to clean out the friend list. Some of you don't even bother to say hello or stay in touch with me! Whine whine whine!"

Yeah, hate to be a bitch, but some of us have jobs. We can't sit on Facebook chat all day. And it's not easy to chat text style, either, so I'm guessing I'm not the only one who despises people that just want you to keep responding to them all damn day long.

[blas87]

I just got a friend request from someone that I didn't even realize had deleted me before. Must be another one of those idiots who gets mad and goes on hiatus and deletes all of their friends, then re-adds them back periodically. I don't remember ever getting into it with her or anything of the sort that was negative.

I can see if something major happens and you need to delete friends or your account alltogether, like something at work or whatever. But the people who are constantly deleting their profile or friends and re-adding them back, get your shit together and figure out what your problem is.

And my ex's family....they would just delete each other when they got into family squabbles, then re-add them back, re-delete them, re-add them back. How stupid.

[telecom_goddess]

I steal mine from others.

Me too And I don't steal them every single day cause yeah tons of those would get old.

[blas87]

I steal mine from others. It really depends on what time of the week it is, because during the work week, I only have an hour or so in the morning to play online. On the weekends, esp if the weather is horrid, I have too much time on my hands.

[LadyBarbossa]

How about the constant picture sharing? And I don't mean personal pictures, but the funny, demotivational, and lolcat type stuff. I'll admit to sharing one or two in my time but I have people who will post dozens a day, one after the other, so now I don't even share them anymore. If you post twenty times a day, chances are I'm going to stop paying attention to anything you write.

[blas87]

I don't mind if people want to say what's on their mind, but the people who always talk like a fortune cookie or a motivational poster just irritate me as well. I can put a quote out every once in a while, but not multiple times a day.

[LadyBarbossa]

What's really enertaining are the people who constantly go from "single" to "in a relationship" to "engaged" to "single" two weeks later, back to "in a relationship" another week later, back to "engaged"...........

Oh god . . . I have two people who have been doing this every few days for the past month or so. And if they're not changing their relationship status, they're talking about their relationship or each other in posts. "OMG I love him/her but we just don't work out/he/she drives me crazy but then I'm sad when we break up or are apart!"

STFU already. I want to take them and bash their heads together.