When you want to banish your friends from your life, you just drop them from your Facebook friends. I am serious- I have witnessed many people recently get really angry at someone and then say “thats it, I am un-friending them from Facebook.” I myself have so many “friends” on Facebook that I wouldn’t notice- thats why someone one time had to tell me they were dropping me- it made no difference, and it was quite funny and very immature that they had to say something.
In fact even though I love Facebook for marketing purposes, but people take Facebook way too seriously. At least some people can tell you the difference between Facebook friends and real friends- although I am sure as we all become more social network dependant- the line will be blurred to the point that people may have online relationships with their Facebook Friends. Wait- that does happen already, and has happened since the invention of AOL chat rooms of the 90s.
Oh and I am always looking for more Facebook friends- I am listed as “frum satire”
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very funny! sadly very true!
Forget Face Book,
My new site is called: Hate Book.
It’s a list of all the people I despise,
Whether stupid, smart or otherwise.
They will be banished from all parties hence
Regardless of what they did – it all makes sense.
So Frum Satire, you will be first on the list.
I give you the honor, I insist.
We call it crapbook, I log in maybe once a month just to see what’s going on their, way too much garbage, myspace isn’t much better.
http://twitter.com/
spacebook. you’re going to need some serious therapy, after that.
Please don’t drop me. I just finally joined.
Seriously, I’m proud to say that I even started limiting my “checking” to once a day. Why can’t they make a daily digest for notices?
Why is it so important for you to have so many facebook friends?
I do treat most of my FB friends as my real friends, because most of them are – either related to me or else people I knew before Facebook existed. Other people who have requested me as a friend, I’ve added, and then dropped a few after seeing stuff from them I really didn’t like. But those were just people who added me because they saw posts by me on some application or group wall somewhere. I won’t join any of those annoying viral “Add me and make thousands of friends!” groups, adding every stranger and group admins doesn’t = making friends, too many people just want to be or look popular and they think collecting a huge list of names in their “friends” list does it. Blech. So, for me, if someone I really do know in real life defriended me on Facebook, I would feel hurt.
Thinking about it, if someone on Facebook “defriends” you; how do you find out about it anyway? (If they don’t tell you obviously). I’m pretty sure that doesn’t come up in your feed… (because it would kill our self-esteem; which must be maintained at all costs nowadays)
buncha biotches
I am addicted to FB, my 150 friends are all real friends and I reject strangers.
Un-friending my ex GF was the hardest thing I had to do in a very long time.
FB becomes a way of life not unlike how you check your email each morning.
I am looking to put together a blogger carnival/haveil havalim just in time for Rosh Hashanah. If you want to be a part of it, please send me a permanent link to one of your blog posts about any of the following topics: forgiveness/teshuvah, new beginnings, sweetness or hope.
For those unfamiliar, a blogger carnival is a big collection of links to other bloggers’ posts about a specific topic. It’s a great way to get free publicity and lets you know who’s out there that you can cross-link to. Since one of my big ambitions for the coming year is to better promote my blog and to write more, I figured this was a great way to start.
I’ll put all the links you send me together and will post it probably on Monday right before the holiday. If you can send me your link by Friday, that would be best.
Shana tova u’metuka! http://www.shtetlfab.blogspot.com
@SA generally if i get a friend request from someone i don’t know i check them out and if they seem legit i engage them in a schmooze and usually friend them. why not? i’ve met some cool people that way. a lot of times it helps break the ice when i see them in person.
@Rishona no alerts when someone removes you as friend. but you might notice your friend count drop.
according to zuckerberg (the founder), facebook is meant to reinforce existing relationships, not foster new ones. but it can if you do it right.
Being in the dating scene I tend to “friend” a guy I’m about to go out with. When it doesn’t work out it’s a little awkward to “unfriend” them. But, I did “unfriend” someone I dated that really hurt me. I hated seeing his pic pop up!
Other than that my friends are my real friends and they get to stay.
I saw this on LiveJournal as well. I unfriended some people and they went nuts.
I’ve never had an issue with unfriending people.
In fact, being a mean girl for a day, I accepted a request from someone I was no longer friends with in real life, checked out his profile, snickered at it, and then defriended him. He was asking for it though, I defriended him in real life, why would I want to be friends on Facebook??
I usually don’t accept friend requests from strangers (unless someone I know knows them and they want to say, play Packrat with me…)
Bailla- I don’t need so many Facebook friends- but it is my number one marketing tool and a great way to get the word out and for fans to find me and some information about me. Its great for shidduch stalking- and its loads of fun.
hesh, this is a reminder that leftover salmon rocks.
ah WasteBook – i dated a guy, had a little tiff with him, he unfriended me, we made up, he friended me again – its like being back in high school. but hesh, i have a lot of bloggers as my FB friends, and i agree it is a great marketing tool, altho i am starting to think that Twitter works so much better that way. the majority of my FB friends are people in my life, past or present, including some ex boyfriends and an ex husband. the only people i dont “know” are the bloggers, but I know them well, if you know what i mean.
now i am off to make ice cream with my girlfriends breast milk. (now if she drank chocolate milk, would that make her milk chocolate flavoured??)
The true way to describe it is fakebook. An illusional site where you have hundreds more friends than you actually do, who all know when your birthday is.
My favorite moment like this was in a history class my senior year when this guy pissed off a girl and she said “that’s it, we’re not facebook friends anymore” and pulled out her Blackberry to unfriend him. Classic.
Karl I never put my birthday- because I prefer not to have a hundred annoying birthday messages. I also like to see how many people actually know my birthday. It stand at 3 or 4 my father never remembers.
First of all there is a way to know when people unfriend you. If you have the facebook toolbar or some other facebook desktop applications it can notify you when someone unfriends you.
I had gone through phases where I tried to clean up my facebook friends limiting it to 100, I’ve deleted a bunch of friends that I haven’t really kept in touch with, but then somehow the friend list just keeps on growing, no matter how many I delete and now I’m over 200.
What’s amazing is, that in real life you don’t realize how many people you know, then once you look at your friend list it becomes surprising.
I friended a professor a while ago, because he said he was going to put up a picture of the class that he took. He never put up the picture, and I haven’t removed him yet, but I never check his profile either. When you have so many friends you don’t see all their news, so you forget their there unless your in contact with them.
lol u luv it haha
FACEBOOK UNFRIENDED ME!!!
Facebook booted me from their service days after creating a group which was intended to be a watchdog against antisemitic facebook groups. Does Facebook support antisemitism & racism? They would not give me any reason for booting me, and have not yet responded to my requests to be reinstated. I have noticed quite a lot of racist, antisemitic and pro terrorist groups posted on Facebook, it seems odd that Facebook would boot me shortly after creating a group to defend civil liberties and safeguard a public service. Can anyone give me advice on what I can do to get them to reinstate me?
Maybe I’m a loony liberal but I have no problem with anti-Semitic groups on Facebook.