# Facebook - Just accepted a friend request, already regret it

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-just-accepted-a-friend-request-already-regret-it/665069>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [August 1, 2013, 10:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-just-accepted-a-friend-request-already-regret-it/665069 "2013-08-01T10:50:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [August 1, 2013, 10:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-just-accepted-a-friend-request-already-regret-it/665069/21 "2013-08-01T22:58:36Z")

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> [@Renee](#):
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> Facebook would be absolute torture without the option to hide people’s statuses from my news feed. I wonder if those people who hate fb so vehamently know of this feature.

My Facebook experience became far more pleasant when I found out that updates for Farmville and other games can be hidden, and how to do it.

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**Author:** ![jackdavinci](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackdavinci/32/3259_2.png) [@jackdavinci](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackdavinci)\
**Post date:** [August 2, 2013, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/facebook-just-accepted-a-friend-request-already-regret-it/665069/22 "2013-08-02T00:39:41Z")

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It is fairly customizable so I don’t see the point in defriending (how is this word not in my spellcheck dictionary yet) anyone unless they are seriously misbehaving. I haven’t even defriended the aunt who no one talks to anymore because she became a religious nut and only posts bible passages and game requests.

Personally I only check the new feed if I’m bored. Usually I just check notifications, or if I haven’t heard from someone specific in awhile I’ll like-spam their page. I used to group friends by type but then fb changed how they did that and I haven’t bothered to redo it.

The only thing that annoys me is the app doesn’t have all the features of the browser version.

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