Boym ,what a piece of work, I’m not talking art
I recently had to defriend someone on FB. Now, I currently weed out folks esp if they are virtually non existent or non repsonsive to my playful messages. Besides, they’re taking up space in my friend list and I like to keep my list tidy. These are my peeps that I dont get to see that often but have fun conversing with. Or they’re people I dont talk to often but happen to like immensely. THis can include one time casual acquaintances or perhaps someone I may not have met but they have to be interesting enough to want to add on my list.
I also add old friends who I’m not as close to but still feel something in my heart for. I know if they lived closer, we would see each other on a regular basis.
There are only a handful of people I dont care to ever connect with on FB. I realize 4 out of 5 of them are women. Either an old school nemesis or someone who just said not so nice things to me. Who needs them? Seriously, we complain about people but why not just drop them? We can forgive but why put ourselves through torture or feeling less secure than we do already?
That said, I would say that I took several work friends off FB and moved them to another network site. They gladly obliged and no one seemed offended except for one so I added him back.
Recently, I got so disgusted with this FBer’s status updates about lashing out against people and after advising her to stop, she continued to do so. I thought wow, this chick really thinks the world revolves around her. As a consequence, she’ll see that she lost at least one FB friend through all this.
Since then, she hasnt even sent me an email, not that I’m wanting this.
However, I think that FB is about friendships, not denigrating people. It should be a positive place and not a forum for hatred or spewing TMI or pouring your heart out. Seriously, who cares? !
Anyway, I realize that in every group setting, there’s someone we all need to extend grace too. If there arent, then take a better look in the mirror!