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What would cause you to un-friend someone on Facebook?

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Lack of boobs.

Heh. 🙂

In reality, I don't unfriend people. People usually unfriend me, if it happens. I engage people in civil debate about religion, science, bogus products for sale, I call them out if I can find their claim on Snopes, etc. If you're going to be part of my life and you're going to be full of shit, then be prepared for someone to lovingly correct you in an effort to make you a better person. If you can't handle it, then you should keep thy bullshit to thyself or simply unfriend me.
 
the most recent person i unfriended on facebook was one of those 'cult of crossfitters'. i have nothing against crossfit, or people who do it, but this guy was one of those, really in your face, i am so much better than you, cardio sucks, you suck, everyone who isn't eating paleo and crossfitting like me sucks, type of guys. and even then, i usually just ignored his many many many posts about what workout he did, or how much he lifted or what he ate for breakfast lunch and dinner. what pushed me over the edge to defriend him was went he went on this rant about all the 'haters' who were giving him, and his wife, crap about being paleo crossfitters and blah blah blah. which was just weird because i never saw anything other than positive feedback and encouragement on his posts. so i decided i was done with that.

before him, i can't even think of the last person i unfriended.
 
compuwiz1 said:
If I don't agree with something or find it too offensive I'll generally just hide it or delete it. What brings you to the point of un-friending someone?

I think this is a good discussion and it might help some people learn why their friend count decreased, ie., not everyone wants to see a picture of you changing your baby's diaper. lol
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Anyone who actually notices their friend count drop by 1 or 2 has some insecurity issues imo.
 
If I have been unfriended i have never noticed except once when i went to look at her profile.

I have unfriended one person because we both live in MN and I was tired of his anti MN baseball and football team posts.

Another person is a friend's wife who i have blocked but should unfriend. She is so busy every day she was posting updates every 15 minutes. No matter how interesting your day is, you should not post every 15 minutes.
 
sswingle said:
Facebook supports hashtags now.
But yes, many people I know have their Twitter and Facebook linked so what they Tweet gets posted to FB or vice versa.
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I did not realize that I thought people were trying to use hashtags from twitter to facebook and did not realize it does not work that way.

gorcorps said:
It's a twitter thing, and I think you can link tweets and status updates now which is why I see so much of that crap now. I don't use twitter so I don't know how it entirely works, but I think hashtags are used to group tweets into a subject. So you can look up a certain hashtag to find what people are saying about it. It's a fine idea in a lot of situations, but you can make up whatever hashtag you want so it's getting obnoxious. When I see a string of tags like "#lol #sobored #lazysunday #stillinbed" I defriend immediately.

It's nothing more than an annoyance, but it's usually an indicator that you have nothing of value to say so you're just typing random bullshit. Why keep them around if they never have anything meaningful to say?
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Hashtags work in concept but in reality they should be used very sparingly. Even then the point it to aggregate posts but there is no single hashtag for something. For instance lets say my sports team wins the big game, I may hashtag, #myteamwins, another friend might use #wewin, and another friend uses #winning. So there is no real aggregation. I do only see it being used suck as photowalks flickr used to do and we would all post tags on our photo so you can see everyone's photos from a night out.
 
First...I'd have to actually be on facebook...

Then, I'd have to "friend" someone in the first place...

Finally, they'd just have to piss me off one time and they'd be gone.
 
I log into my FB once a year... I unfriended just one person because she was my best friend for a while and we had a major falling out. That's about it.

The rest I use to pad my shameful "friend" count. I don't unfriend people if I'm trying to be passive-aggressive actually unfriending someone in real life -- that would screw up the illusion that everything's okay.

P.S. Spell-check is saying that "unfriend" is not a work. Get with the times, yo.
 
I like to believe that if I ever found myself about to unfriend a person on Facebook I'd commit suicide for being on Facebook in the first place.
 
when they relentlessly send private messages inviting me to play Facebook games or join their stupid support groups. Ive unfriended two people because of of this spam.
 
I unfriended my ex g/f along with whoever else she was associated with, and blocked them. Largely because I never want to see or hear from any of them, nor any evidence of them. In fact, if all record of them could be erased from my memory, that would be good.
 
People who post non stop all day in and out about every stupid thing. Those are usually the same people who only take and never ever give back and comment back to other people or take an interest in anything but themselves or what is directly around THEM.

One chick who would only post about herself and constantly wanted help and wanted people to give her things. She could never hold a job and would constantly be asking for money or places to live etc. Just a burden on everyone around her. Could never ever just be self sufficient or had anything to offer to anyone else. Just take take take.

People who have an agenda and non stop post about it. Like they are on a crusade. Wanting to help a good cause is nice. I want to know about you and your life not the cause. Make another page for it. Or dial it down a bit so it's reasonable, then that's fine. Like I got one chick who's a little overweight and for a while all she'd ever post about is pictures of other fat chicks and how they are "beautiful too". Over and over and over in different ways. I think she's a nice person though. So I started calling her on the crap and saying they are still unhealthy and it's not good to promote over eating and being unhealthy etc. Plus she is single and it's very unattractive, it aint going to help her get a man. It looks very self conscience and show's she's really just unhappy and unhappy with her weight. I mean come on, it's not like she's suddenly going to convince some guy to say "oh yeah you're right, I should start dating fat girls they are way prettier than slender hot chicks". I almost unfriended her. After some reasoning she stopped. She's much more interesting now and it makes her more attractive.

That includes non stop politics pushing, non stop gay rights crap with those lame = signs in their profile picture instead of a picture of them.

And anyone who's had or is for abortion. I'm not being friends with someone who'd kill a baby. Especially not one who'd promote it over and over.
 
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T9D said:
People who post non stop all day in and out about every stupid thing. Those are usually the same people who only take and never ever give back and comment back to other people or take an interest in anything but themselves or what is directly around THEM.

One chick who would only post about herself and constantly wanted help and wanted people to give her things. She could never hold a job and would constantly be asking for money or places to live etc. Just a burden on everyone around her. Could never ever just be self sufficient or had anything to offer to anyone else. Just take take take.

People who have an agenda and non stop post about it. Like they are on a crusade. Wanting to help a good cause is nice. I want to know about you and your life not the cause. Make another page for it. Or dial it down a bit so it's reasonable, then that's fine. Like I got one chick who's a little overweight and for a while all she'd ever post about is pictures of other fat chicks and how they are "beautiful too". Over and over and over in different ways. I think she's a nice person though. So I started calling her on the crap and saying they are still unhealthy and it's not good to promote over eating and being unhealthy etc. Plus she is single and it's very unattractive, it aint going to help her get a man. It looks very self conscience and show's she's really just unhappy and unhappy with her weight. I mean come on, it's not like she's suddenly going to convince some guy to say "oh yeah you're right, I should start dating fat girls they are way prettier than slender hot chicks". I almost unfriended her. After some reasoning she stopped. She's much more interesting now and it makes her more attractive.

That includes non stop politics pushing, non stop gay rights crap with those lame = signs in their profile picture instead of a picture of them.

And anyone who's had or is for abortion. I'm not being friends with someone who'd kill a baby. Especially not one who'd promote it over and over.
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I'd unfriend you in a second.
 
T9D said:
People who post non stop all day in and out about every stupid thing. Those are usually the same people who only take and never ever give back and comment back to other people or take an interest in anything but themselves or what is directly around THEM.

One chick who would only post about herself and constantly wanted help and wanted people to give her things. She could never hold a job and would constantly be asking for money or places to live etc. Just a burden on everyone around her. Could never ever just be self sufficient or had anything to offer to anyone else. Just take take take.

People who have an agenda and non stop post about it. Like they are on a crusade. Wanting to help a good cause is nice. I want to know about you and your life not the cause. Make another page for it. Or dial it down a bit so it's reasonable, then that's fine. Like I got one chick who's a little overweight and for a while all she'd ever post about is pictures of other fat chicks and how they are "beautiful too". Over and over and over in different ways. I think she's a nice person though. So I started calling her on the crap and saying they are still unhealthy and it's not good to promote over eating and being unhealthy etc. Plus she is single and it's very unattractive, it aint going to help her get a man. It looks very self conscience and show's she's really just unhappy and unhappy with her weight. I mean come on, it's not like she's suddenly going to convince some guy to say "oh yeah you're right, I should start dating fat girls they are way prettier than slender hot chicks". I almost unfriended her. After some reasoning she stopped. She's much more interesting now and it makes her more attractive.

That includes non stop politics pushing, non stop gay rights crap with those lame = signs in their profile picture instead of a picture of them.

And anyone who's had or is for abortion. I'm not being friends with someone who'd kill a baby. Especially not one who'd promote it over and over.
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Yeah, I would unfriend you too.
 
T9D said:
People who post non stop all day in and out about every stupid thing. Those are usually the same people who only take and never ever give back and comment back to other people or take an interest in anything but themselves or what is directly around THEM.

One chick who would only post about herself and constantly wanted help and wanted people to give her things. She could never hold a job and would constantly be asking for money or places to live etc. Just a burden on everyone around her. Could never ever just be self sufficient or had anything to offer to anyone else. Just take take take.

People who have an agenda and non stop post about it. Like they are on a crusade. Wanting to help a good cause is nice. I want to know about you and your life not the cause. Make another page for it. Or dial it down a bit so it's reasonable, then that's fine. Like I got one chick who's a little overweight and for a while all she'd ever post about is pictures of other fat chicks and how they are "beautiful too". Over and over and over in different ways. I think she's a nice person though. So I started calling her on the crap and saying they are still unhealthy and it's not good to promote over eating and being unhealthy etc. Plus she is single and it's very unattractive, it aint going to help her get a man. It looks very self conscience and show's she's really just unhappy and unhappy with her weight. I mean come on, it's not like she's suddenly going to convince some guy to say "oh yeah you're right, I should start dating fat girls they are way prettier than slender hot chicks". I almost unfriended her. After some reasoning she stopped. She's much more interesting now and it makes her more attractive.

That includes non stop politics pushing, non stop gay rights crap with those lame = signs in their profile picture instead of a picture of them.

And anyone who's had or is for abortion. I'm not being friends with someone who'd kill a baby. Especially not one who'd promote it over and over.
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/unfriend
 
I routinely delete people - for the most part, I don't delete relatives. And, I don't delete people who I care to pay attention to what they're doing. Every once in a while, I pick an arbitrary number - say, "I shouldn't have more than 80 friends" - and I delete people until I'm down to 80.
 
I booted someone yesterday. They posted about how strongly they felt that everyone should be forced to take vaccinations.
 
compuwiz1 said:
I accepted a friend request once because I recognized the last name, figuring it was a friend of a friend. Soon I found out that it was a minor girl from another country, asking me some very adult like questions. I sent her a message that I do not communicate with minors like that, then quickly pressed the unfriend button. Yikes! I'm sure we've all had that one.
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Will it make you feel better if we lie and tell you we have?
 
T9D said:
People who post non stop all day in and out about every stupid thing. Those are usually the same people who only take and never ever give back and comment back to other people or take an interest in anything but themselves or what is directly around THEM.

One chick who would only post about herself and constantly wanted help and wanted people to give her things. She could never hold a job and would constantly be asking for money or places to live etc. Just a burden on everyone around her. Could never ever just be self sufficient or had anything to offer to anyone else. Just take take take.

People who have an agenda and non stop post about it. Like they are on a crusade. Wanting to help a good cause is nice. I want to know about you and your life not the cause. Make another page for it. Or dial it down a bit so it's reasonable, then that's fine. Like I got one chick who's a little overweight and for a while all she'd ever post about is pictures of other fat chicks and how they are "beautiful too". Over and over and over in different ways. I think she's a nice person though. So I started calling her on the crap and saying they are still unhealthy and it's not good to promote over eating and being unhealthy etc. Plus she is single and it's very unattractive, it aint going to help her get a man. It looks very self conscience and show's she's really just unhappy and unhappy with her weight. I mean come on, it's not like she's suddenly going to convince some guy to say "oh yeah you're right, I should start dating fat girls they are way prettier than slender hot chicks". I almost unfriended her. After some reasoning she stopped. She's much more interesting now and it makes her more attractive.

That includes non stop politics pushing, non stop gay rights crap with those lame = signs in their profile picture instead of a picture of them.

And anyone who's had or is for abortion. I'm not being friends with someone who'd kill a baby. Especially not one who'd promote it over and over.
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People who post walls of text.
 
Puppies04 said:
Will it make you feel better if we lie and tell you we have?
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Why be a dick to compuwiz1 bro? The guy doesn't troll, helps others and is probably one the most respected members this forum ever has.

On my facebook I have gotten requests from those I regretted adding thinking they were someone else. I quickly defriend. Some will then bitch in messages about it.
 
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