You know how it is, you've got people on your friends list that you haven't spoken to since primary school, but you know the name of their kids and how many times they've been married. Worse than that, these people know the same stuff about you. That's just weird. Have a look at our list of the things Facebook knows about you if you really want to start worrying about your privacy. This is also a great reason for unliking random things like airlines and hotelsit will make your News Feed much cleaner and more enjoyable to spend time on.
Do you really care that your old boss has checked into a restaurant in Prague? Or that a random bar you liked back in college is selling tickets for its latest Tuesday night extravaganza? It comes back to what Dunbar and Konnikova were discussing. Clearing out your friends and likes will mean the news you should care about will be more prominent on your feed, allowing you to better develop your meaningful relationships and discard the unimportant ones.
There has been plenty of research around "annoying" Facebook posts. We've explored the phenomenon of vaguebooking elsewhere on the site, but that's only scratching the surface of the problem. In , 2, people were asked what were the main reasons they'd delete someone on the site.
The reasons cited include:. It makes sense to get rid of people whose posts annoy you online. Why let yourself get irritated by someone else's social media feed? There are already enough issues in the world to anger us. If they're a genuine close friend, there are ways to politely ignore someone on Facebook. If not, give them the elbow. Making these points is all well and goodbut when push comes to shove and your mouse is hovering over the unfriend button, it all suddenly feels a bit final.
How do you know you won't run into them again in five years' time and become BFFs?! What if they realize that you've binned them? Each person needs to decide their own parameters for unfriending. This space is here only so it looks like I have a sig so my post are more noticeable. My posts look naked without a sig. User Info: SurvivorType. I wouldn't worry about it, it's just social media.
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Keep me logged in on this device. Forgot your username or password? User Info: Fenriswolf Fenriswolf 8 years ago 1 I have two friends mysteriously vanish from my list in the past week or some. One hasn't logged in since December , while I was just talking to another friend the other day.
He doesn't know why either, and found out it also happened to some of his own friends. User Info: MrMegaPhoenix MrMegaPhoenix 8 years ago 2 i had this happen to me, but it only ever happened with a chick who was mentally unstable.
User Info: Bedman Bedman 8 years ago 3 Don't know about it cancelling a friendship without one or both people choosing to do so, but Facebook does automatically deactivate entire accounts that are inactive. They can be roughly grouped into two categories that correspond to the top two reasons: things that are inappropriate or polarizing posts about politics, religion, sex, swear words, sexism, and racism and things that are simply unimportant and annoying posts about your job or promotion, a meal you ate, something you did with your spouse or partner, and pictures of your kid or dog.
You're free to post about your pet's new haircut, but you're going to lose friends. In other words, you're free to post about how your kid and pet both got new haircuts the same day you got a promotion and ate a new celebrity chef's restaurant , but be warned: you're going to lose some friends.
The fact that we find all this so annoying — and unfriend so often based upon it — tells us a bit about what Facebook's good at, and what it fails at. We like finding out about most of these things when they pertain to close friends or family members. We find these posts utterly annoying when they're about acquaintances. Facebook has tried to solve this by allowing us to create different lists of friends, but so far, it hasn't really taken off. A better idea is an annual spring cleaning of your friend list, during which you remove everyone you'll probably never see again.
This interesting conclusion also came from Sibona's study. Some of the respondents didn't remember who'd originally sent the friend request, but for those that did, the numbers were pretty heavily skewed.
Although you probably don't think of your Facebook friends in terms of who added you versus who you added, this makes sense — in general, the person who sent you a request is likely to be more interested in being friends in the first place. After you don't see them for years — and they start posting about their faith in god and their terrible day at the office — you're more likely to unfriend them than vice-versa.
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