Unfriending and Blocking on Facebook
 

Hi,

I have been aggressive about unfriending people on facebook.


1 One cousin complains too much and usually about other people. --- She is deleted and blocked. :(

2 A spouse of a cousin is defriended because he is close to crazy in his politics and I fought very hard for the opposite side in the last election. :mad:

3 A first cousin tonight is bitching about his state government in the winter storm in a way that shows he supports the party I dislike. :eek:


Unfriended
AND
Blocked

They are blocked because I do not want Facebook's algorithm to suggest them to me again.


I kicked some butttt.
My friends are dwindling. I am happy. :D

M

it is always better to get rid of those who are not helping to uplift you.I do the same thing if they are bringing me down they are gone lol
Gail

Good for you Mari!!!!!!!! I need your guts & decisiveness! :Heart:

I unfriended a fellow employee from the past,because of the nature of his subjects,and discussions,and then his whole family unfriended me. That's OK,because we didn't have anything in common. BF:hug::hug::hug:

I had to unfriend and block some folks that were messaging me really weird
messages. And not just one or two. But maybe 15 to 20 a day.

The only way I could stop them was to block so I did. I had tried other
things it just didn't work.

I also had someone trying to start a war with family members.
It took a lot of time but we even found out who it was. They all
had already been unfriended and blocked on Facebook.

I am a friendly and nice person on facebook, you don't treat me that
way. I don't tolerate it.

I love new friends, but they have to be nice too.

My handle is Donna Roberts and i'm from oxford, Indiana. Since there
are so many of us. If anyone wants a new friend.

:hug::grouphug:

Another one bites the dust!
 

Hi,

An Aunt likes to post pictures of abandoned animals.
Apparently she wants people to get upset and do something about the picture she posted today..

1 I am not upset
2 I did something

Unfriended
AND
Blocked

Mari

I too have a friend who post pictures of dogs needing adoption or abused animals or horses...never know what she is going to post. I hate seeing the abused ones. awful!
bizi

Bizi,

Instead of de-friendeding her, you can just hide her posts. That way you will not see her posts.

M

I have people on facebook who I've hidden because of the abused animal photos they've posted. It's upsetting to see things like that. BUT relieving to hide it from future view. I am glad you did all this Mari, I am sure it will give you some peace. :) :D

I don't do Facebook. It sounds like a major source of effort & frustration.
 

I still don't understand what people see in facebook. When it first became all the rave, I was curious about it, and occasionally tempted. I've been asked and even cajoled about joining. However I prefer to keep my social presence on the www anonymous, and I can't see having RL friends or family call me by a handle. I think it would be confusing to have multiple accounts - I wouldn't be able to tell my elbow from my rear end any more.

Furthermore, as the years have gone by, my curiousity has only been replaced by near-aversion. I hardly ever hear about good experiences on facebook. At most, I might hear about a "useful" communication - that could easily have been sent via email, even to multiple people.

To the contrary, I hear increasing numbers of people hurt, confused, angry, offended, upset over something that happened on facebook. I hear about people getting abused or insulted, friending and unfriending (expectedly or unexpectedly), blocking etc, and misunderstandings etc ... all on facebook. We won't talk about the odd occasion when accounts get broken into - happened to Lil' Monkey (Curious' daughter - it was disastrous!)

I can still somewhat appreciate the use of it to keep in touch with a limited circle, say family, but even then, there seems to be drama. I just don't get it. I fail to see the positives in it.

I know there are games, but i have no lack of free games. And if we want to talk about that then let's talk about internet addiction... oh there's a good thing! :eek:

So my solution is not friending unfriending or blocking or hiding. My own personal (perhaps antiquated) solution is ...

... I DON'T DO FACEBOOK! HA! :cool::D

~ waves ~

My own son blocked me
 

Facebook seems like an invasion of my privacy. All of a sudden I have relatives and friend wanting to be my friend. By allowing a friend in both of us are able to look through lives and organizations we are members of which I find invasive.

To a degree you are right Becky.

And by the way welcome.

But in my case its more that. I have some friends that I've known
from all over the states. That I can't talk to anywhere else anymore.

So I talk to them there.

Donna:grouphug::hug:

Facebook for work
 

Waves,

I was asked to join myspace and then facebook for work.
Years ago we put up visual art, audio, and text for a literary magazine.
That is why I have facebook. I have it for my students.


Two years ago, I created a second account on facebook for my family. I see what is going on with my two brothers' children. They do not talk to me on the phone or in email or texts. They do talk to me on facebook every blue moon. One brother initiates conversations with me via facebook sometimes.
I am happy to hear about and from my niece and nephews.

Facebook suggests people to join. Some people request to be friended. That is how I get requests from cousins I have not spoken to in thirty plus years. It is hard to turn down a request because I am refusing someone.
It is easy to unfriend and block because most will not notice. Those in my extended family who do eventually notice will not care.


+++++
Recently when I was talking to my tdoc about this bipolar board I could not explain easily what is was. I told her to think of it as an old fashioned facebook.

M

Privacy settings
 

Hi, Becky,

Go to the little picture of the lock at the top right hand of the screen in facebook to see your Privacy Shortcuts.
-- Who can see my stuff?
-- Who can contact me?
-- How do I stop someone from bothering me?
-- Who can look me up?

For who can look me up, I have it set to only "Friends" -- not friends of friends.
The first day I got on my work facebook I blocked everyone at work who is an administrator. I do not want any of them ever seeing what I post.

For who can see my stuff, I set it to custom. When I send a status update, it only goes to two or three people that I have been talking to lately.

Play around with the privacy settings or ask someone to show you.

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Also you can limit what shows up in your news feed.
Go to someone's page and let your mouse hover over the Friend box that has a check mark right now. You can change it so that you do not get notifications from them.


You can hide any pictures and status pictures.
Someone would have to look for them.
You can even sort of delete old things that you have sent out in the past.
This takes me longer to explain than the privacy settings with the lock.

It is o.k. to experiment.


M

What is TOUGH is due friending family members!
 

Lol...I die friended abd blocked my grown nephew e cause of pics he was posting. Not sure he really cares, but I feel better!

Hi Mari
 

I have to smile a bit with your post. I have been unfriended by three people I don't even know. I never joined face book. Whats up with that???Have a good day. ginnie

Ginnie,

I hope you have a good day.

Your post made me smile.

M

Hurray for Mari! I wish I could get away with that. I have one near family (step dd fiancee) member who is insistent his point of view be that of others, politics mainly. Also a distant cousin, by marriage since divorced...her 2nd husbands political rantings.
I have many friendly people, it's the family that is obnoxious?

But, I don't need the family drama that would happen so I hide the post.

Blocking gives me huge relief sometimes :)

Well done Mari.

:winky:

Hi, Majo,

It is great to see you.



Hi, Di,

Hiding" their stuff is great. I do that with one person who posts so often that I cannot see anything else.

M

I love you my friend !!