Been thinking of pruning my own small (28) ‘friend’ list. Two people on it that I don’t think I’ve ever had even a basic conversation with, and one former-coworker who moved out of state and spams her fb account with more comments than an insecure pre-teen girl.
How did you find out that she unfriended you?
You’ve inspired me to go through and delete a bunch of “friends” from my facebook. Hopefully they don’t get their feelings hurt!
I tried to hide someones posts once, but ended up unfriending them by mistake.
I had a former school-mate send me a friend request. Now, I don’t know that I had ever spoken to this person ever in my life, but. . . given that I was from a small town where everyone knew everyone, and we were pretty much in the same classes from 1-12, we still knew each other.
Two weeks later he deleted me. No big loss, but it was a puzzle as to why he’s send me a friend request, then soon after delete me. No idea. (My facebook is pretty boring, though, so maybe he was just cleaning house.)
I accidentally either friended or accepted a friend request on FB for a guy that I have no idea who he is. Turns out the only other friend he has on FB is the father of a friend of mine from high school. I’m not even friends with her father. I was going to unfriend him, but he only has two friends at the moment. So I didn’t.
You do realise that this isn’t a real “friend” of yours, right? And that is might actually be unfair to him to let him keep wallowing under the illusion that he has any real friends.
Or, he’s someone with an active real-life pool of friends, and his two Facebook “friends” are completely irrelevant to his actual life.
I just unfriended a co-worker’s wife. I was already friends with “Fred Johnson” when I got a request from “Fred Mabel Johnson” a few weeks ago. Fred posted a status saying that he did not have much time for FB, so his wife was sending us all friend requests so that she could post all the cute kid pics, etc. So, I accepted, even though I do not know her at all.
All was fine until last week when she posted a status about how she was going to homeschool or put her kids in Christian school next year, because she just couldn’t stand how public schools weren’t allowed to celebrate Christmas anymore. By the time I read the status, there were several comments that she had responded to. One of her responses insinuated that soon “they” were not going to let people celebrate Christ in their own homes anymore :rolleyes:.
After that, there was a very reasonable reply from someone I do not know explaining that not everyone in public schools is Christian, and that, really, there is no one suggesting that Christians are not allowed to celebrate in their own homes. Well, she went off on this guy, saying, “Do not get into this with me. It will not end well. I am going to fight on the side of Christ!”
Well, this whole exchange kind of cheesed me off, and obviously there was no room for any sort of reasonable conversation in this lady’s mind. And I don’t even know her. And what kind of person posts under her husband’s name on Facebook anyway? And life is too short for people I don’t know to be pissing me off on Facebook early in the morning. So I unfriended her. And then I felt kind of bad about it. Even though she is not likely to even notice, given that she has no idea who I am. Maybe that’s why I felt bad. Because I want her to notice. Look, someone unfriended you because you are such a nutbar! 
Why do people do this? I should have been unfriended so many times. I also refuse to cut and paste statuses, even for “just one hour”, even if I actually am against cancer or do support the troops, because I think it’s stupid.
Agreed on both counts. I have an aunt who has repeatedly posted the “put this as your status if someone you love will be spending Christmas in Heaven” spam status. I know she’s trying to get me to repost it because my dad (her ex-BIL) died in October. Not gonna happen - I don’t believe in heaven, I doubt my father did, and I’ve got far, far better ways to remember him than a fucking facebook post I didn’t even write.
I always want to change my status to a pointed “Repost this if you believe changing your status for an hour does nothing but cheapen and trivialize the very real suffering of people with (cause x) without benefitting them in any way whatsoever”, but most of my slacktivists are otherwise charming people who lead blameless lives and I don’t want to hurt their feelings.
I have a small list of friends too, Chimera. I guess that’s why I noticed. But like hermette said, maybe she came to realize she didn’t know me. lol
And Tamex, I have a friend like that, too. She’s a militant…believer? But she’s family. If I unfriended her I’d probably have to close my Facebook account.
To paraphrase Marty Crane from Frasier, we all get obsessed with silly things from time to time. The important thing is to drop it before you start yakking on and on about it to someone who doesn’t give a rat’s ass.
Yeah, I’m trying to resist unfriending a bunch of “mommyfriends” on FB who didn’t wish my kid a happy birthday. The only thing we have in common is we live in the same town and grew other people in our uteruses lately for 9-ish months, you couldn’t even click “like” on the damn “She’s One!” post?
I know, I know I’m being silly, I’ll stop yakking on now 
Another explanation: if someone disables their facebook account (takes a semi-permanent or permanent break from Facebook), it will look like you have been “blocked” by them.