Comments on: 8 Reasons to Unfriend Someone on Facebook

By: Ray

Ray — Wed, 27 Mar 2013 05:35:54 +0000

I unfriend people with vastly different viewpoints from me – and who constantly post about them. In particular, liberals who just love Obama and gay marriage. Really? What could be worse.

By: george

george — Fri, 01 Feb 2013 12:16:52 +0000

I just unfriended myself.

By: Judy

Judy — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 21:44:14 +0000

I unfriended someone when I realized that all I ever got from her was political commentary, contrary to my beliefs. I had never met this woman. We attended the same school many years back, but not at the same time. It wouldn’t occur to me that she would be hurt, because she had no idea who I was. Once I unfriended her, she asked me about it. I told her why, saying I thought we had nothing in commmon, but would be happy to be her friend; suggested she write me a letter telling me about herself. She then checked my posts, agreed that we had nothing in common. She also called me names. It seems to me that common sense should enter into this. How can you be upset at being unfriended by someone you’ve never truly been friends with?

By: Kelvin

Kelvin — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 03:09:29 +0000

If i cannot click there profile pictures = delete
If they dont message me back but update their status = delete! There are some funny examples on http://www.definemen.com/2012/01/12-clear-reasons-to-delete-block-or-unfriend-you-on-facebook/

By: Robin

Robin — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 13:05:59 +0000

I did a major purge of work friends a few months back. turned out that they were maliciously putting my name to rumors going around at work and I was getting nasty emails through facebook from them. Not all of them were doing it but I thought it was best to remove everyone that I currently work with. Things at work are much better now, they now know it is not me reporting them for their posts related to work and getting them in trouble.

By: Colsen

Colsen — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 01:21:50 +0000

I un-friended someone yesterday. Her name was Ally Veselak and she called me the a word and a butt sniffer.

By: Ching Chang Chong

Ching Chang Chong — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:02:03 +0000

I ‘un-friended’ someone just yesterday. It felt strange but yet I felt that a great burden had been lifted off my shoulders (I had been contemplating ‘un-friending’ this individual for some time). This was an individual I had worked with on a couple of professional projects 13+ years ago and had kept up with them somewhat over the years. I continued to offer moral support for this persons professional endeavors and I thought of this person as certainly more than an acquaintance, thus I did not feel funny or awkward about sending a friend request to this person when they appeared on Facebook a couple of years ago. Well, for some reason, for the past year or so, every time I posted a comment about something they had posted on their ‘wall’ my response would get inexplicably deleted or hidden (as God is my witness I was not posting inappropriate or irrelevant stuff). However, my wall was constantly getting spammed by this person promoting their latest pet project and so on and so forth. On top of that, the last time they responded to anything I posted on their wall and actually left up- the response was pretty much a semi-veiled insult. WOW! Ohhhh-kay. Basically, had this been real fife and that had happened at a party in front of some people, I would’ve made a response like “Well alright then. I’m just gonna go stand over there.” Then I would quietly slip out of the party.
Well, just yesterday, I had another post deleted/hidden for reasons completely unknown to me so I just said to myself “You know what? Screw this. I’m done with this.” And I did it. I even went on and ‘un-liked’ all of the FB pages for their pet projects as well. I’m not gonna be a billboard anymore for someone who obviously doesn’t give a flying flip about me.
I wish them all the best in their future endeavors but I’m not helping anymore.

By: Sionn

Sionn — Thu, 16 Dec 2010 18:25:01 +0000

I just unfriended someone a few minutes ago, due to his political opinions. Back in high school, he was a relatively cool person, a great artist and someone I enjoyed hanging out with. In the twenty-two years since we last saw one another, he’s become a ridged neo-con, a Tea Party enthusiast and someone I just don’t care to spend time with. God forbid you have a differing opinion than he does, as he’s something of a shut-in and will dredge up a neo-con, Glen Beck laced argument should your comment be critical of the right, at all times of the day. After his last attack, I pulled up my friend page and cut him off of it. I miss the guy he used to be in high school, because he certainly isn’t that person any longer. I don’t need ‘frenemies’.

By: Ariel

Ariel — Sat, 26 Jun 2010 16:57:16 +0000

They always post annoying and cynical responses to all of your status updates.

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By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:45:59 +0000

I just hide them, unless they are really freaky or constantly use foul language.

I wish they had a way for you to see who is viewing your page that is not a FB friend.

All the apps I know only track your friends that post (or do something else) on your page because everything on FB is cached, so there is no record of just viewing someone’s FB page. This kind of app would eliminate all of the FB stalking.

By: Clau

Clau — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 04:59:30 +0000

Who the f@ck are these people who get so irratated about such miniscule things. Are we that f@cking spoiled and petty?! “I couldn’t be friend with non-Obama supperter”? I think it is at this point that people should look in the mirror when looking for problems.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 14:03:38 +0000

How cheesy can you be to unfriend someone who did not vote for the Annointed Cherub?

I personally don’t care who someone votes for but I also don’t care to see “status updates” that inform me they are gunning all sorts of folks down in Mafia Wars.

By: Nitza Fairlie

Nitza Fairlie — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 14:48:59 +0000

How do people get requests from other people that high. unlikely would ask to be my friend. Does facebook does the match? My family we have the same last name on our e-m address Facebook computers notice the affinity. e.g. my husb is asked by this”adorable” niece to be his”friend” and then based on that computer probabilities, suddenly a notice appears she want to be my friend and friends with rest of family is it her or facebk doing the match?
also, when i unfriend someone are they just removed fm my facebbok acct that would be nice with no further notice so if asked i say i do not know, it happened to other friends,sorry and that is it? Please respond. N

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By: Sally

Sally — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:19:40 +0000

haha I agree. I mean there are ppl on my list that I don’t even like but I didn’t unfriend them yet cause it’s funny when I stalk and laugh at their pictures… lol but it’s getting on my nerves so I may do it soon !

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By: Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:16:09 +0000

I think most people (girls anyway) keep their exes as friends on Facebook so they can stalk them for a while after a break up, even if they were the ones doing the breaking up!

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