I Am Cleaning up My Friends List.....

NOOOOO, say it ain't SOOOO, please don't unfriend me! It will send me down a spiraling black hole of depression! I can't TAAAAKE that kind of rejection!

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I just love that MP gets the FB questions....

:)

Finally got some computer time! And now I have to go adjust the timer light switch in the bathroom....

Maybe I should get a FB account so that I can update that. :)

I agree so much! I HATE when people post that and i hate when they add a comment like: "reply to proove you read" NOPE I read that and I'm still not replying to your begging for attention=)

However I LOVE facebook arguments that end with someone getting defriended. I find that super amusing. My brothers ex defriended M. after I caught her cheating on my brother and let her know I knew and I found it super amusing that she defriended M.....it makes M. laugh that people think their post are so important that disallowing someone reading them is hurtful=)

Oh no you defriended M.....what am I going to do with my life!!!!

Same sort of thing as the "I am leaving Mamapedia" - the drama.

I always chalk it up to click happy users who don't know "DON"T CLICK ON EVERYTHING"....

URG!

ETA: I have been defriended...I didn't notice until I was "cleaning up my list"...but I don't tell anyone...just like I don't care when people defriend me. I have had to block people (family non the less).

Just to set it straight, I do not think you are a lurker, and I have nothing against lurkers! I just dont think you are on very much, which doesnt bother me as long as my mundane posts dont bother you. ;) Lovvve you! lol

And besides, my MP friends, which I feel like I know pretty well, are the only ones I do not know in real life.

One of my FB friends just said that this morning, "I'm cleaning out my friends list". Or something like that. Ok, good for you.

At one point, I had over 600 friends. I didn't even know who half of them were because I had started to add "networking" contacts, because I own an insurance agency. Then after a year or more, I thought, do these people really need to know details of my life? Because as you know, since you are my FB friend, I post a LOT on my page. So I went thru and deleted them if they were not a friend, family or from my high school or prior coworker. so now I think I'm just under 400. I also started another profile under my married name (not hyphend name) and added all my business people under there. I don't post anything personal on there and in fact, haven't been on that profile in probably 6+ months.

But yes, I think it is a way to say, "if you are still reading this, then you made the cut". Who cares? =)

I see them all the time. I am very very active on FB. But I do not play games directly on there (well not during the day ..I play lately if I am looking for a time killer while resting this busted foot of mine in the evenings on my new-ish iPad hubby got me).

I just enver ever click any of those links ("How many foods out of these 100 have you eaten" ..."How many movies out of these 100 have you seen"...etc) Back when I first got FB, my hubby did (and has since dumped his) and my teenager got her account, we all clicked a few of those and had computer issues. Surprise! Not.

So I just update statuses, chat with pals, connect with fellow daycare providers in closed groups, and have a small page for my daycare business, and avoid extra clicky's.

I am so very selective about my 'friends list' anyway. I've turned down lots of requests from people that I went to high school with but wasn't friends with and frankly didn't even know them! Why do they want to be 'friends?' So weird to me.

But. I haven't seen that 'cleaning up my friends list' post within my group.

Ah, one more reason I am glad not to do the Facebook thing....

I always thought that the whole 'friending' thing was kind of funny... I wish they would call it 'contacts' instead. They've taken a very nice word (friend) and turned it into a limp euphemism with too much ambiguous power. My friends are the people I see regularly... I guess it wouldn't have as much cache if we called it an 'acquaintances' list, now would it?

I hide all the games, but the new pinterest thingy drives me nuts now! When I post on Pinterest, I keep it on Pinterest. You have an option people!!! I don't care about that "casual Saturday getup with matching jewelry"!!

I agree, J.!!!

Every time I see it I am thinking, what that person really means is, "Not enough people are paying attention to me on FB, so this is my reminder that I am here. Interact with me!" Cry for help.

When I cleaned up my friends list, I didn't make an announcement. I just went through and deleted a few dozen people that I no longer wished to have access to my personal life, or who were just rude to others. What I was left with was my closest friends, family, my kids' friends' parents, and old colleagues that I'd like to maintain contact with for future career prospects.

I never assumed those were anything more than click-jacking. I never thought the people who post that really are responsible for it -- just some self-perpetuating spam.

The only people I have on my facebook are people I know and would be friends with in real life. If I'm not going to invest in you in real life, I won't do it on facebook either!

I've been very selective of the people I add to my Facebook page...up until 6 months ago, I didn't have anyone on my page I didn't know personally. (meaning no one who hadn't been to my house before)

Then we started tailgating for the San Antonio Talons. I added several of my friends there. Then I promised the team that if they won a big game, I'd feed them prime rib roast, brisket, ribs and chicken along with all the fix'ns. (Oh Lord, I just realized how southern I've gotten, lol!) Well, they won. So hubby and I along with a couple others from the tailgates went to the guys' apartment complex and long story short, they started adding me. (A few people call me the team mom.)

My point is, I now have around 200 people on my Facebook page. If any of them deleted me, I wouldn't be heartbroken. If they posted that they were cleaning out their friends list, I wouldn't answer. I know how my friends are and I don't need to "see" them on a website to know we're friends.

LOL I totally agree. How self absorbed! I have someone (an aunt) who posts this frequently. I wish that she would un-friend me but despite my not responding to this, there she is, day after day.

I have to say that I have enjoyed FB a lot more since successfully blocking Farmville et. al.

ooh dear!!! I hope does not mean you are deleting (unfriending) me!!!!

I don't really think much about it. There are some people who play games via facebook and stop playing the games.

I sooo don't think you are a lurker!! And if you were? it wouldn't bother me!!! I'll be posting my funny for the day in a few minutes!! I've missed doing that. I was having a hard time finding funnies!!!

I sometimes wonder if that is a virus because some of the people that have posted it are rarely on facebook and don't have a large list anyway. I never click on them because I don't want to change to the timeline or inadvertently put out information from my page that is unsecured. So if I get dropped from their list, then so be it. Currently, I have been inundated with game invites. I don't why. My friends on FB know I don't play any of the games and the invites are coming from the same handful of people. I am wondering if their accounts have been hacked.
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I think it's ridiculous to "announce" that you are cleaning out your friends list lol If I have someone on my list whom I do not want as a friend on there anymore, then bam, I delete them. If I did decide to go thru my whole list, then I'll do just that. I don't need to inform anyone! :)

LOL! I think its because they want you to realize they removed you. As if it should have some great impact on your life...

I'm always amused by those that post that and then at some point I realize I "made the cut". and it's always people that I really wouldn't care if they removed me because we're not close friends.

Seems like a call to drama

LOL! I agree...when someone posts that they are cleaning their friends list, it is simply to get attn or so the person they are unfriending knows it! I don't pay much attn to how many friends I have...I have cleaned up my friends' list once, deleting over 60 ppl...and need to do it again. I figure if you've never commented or talked to me and never post, why are you my "friend?" (there are exceptions, like family or old friends who I have no other way to contact if need be, ya know?)

I also hate those who love to post every 15 minutes or so, posts about the race or football game every 2 minutes (and I love sports, but if I wanna know, I'll watch it myself, thanks!) And the vaguebookers really piss me off. Like just posting a frowny face...really???? If you have something you want us to know then just freaking say it! LOL!

OK, I could go on...but you get the point! Have a great day!

I think actually the one that you are referring to the 'do you want me to keep you' where you click yes/no is actually a phishing scheme. Its like 'liking' a page. If you look that 'page' actually has over 1,000,000 likes.