I have my facebook set up into different groups - people that are acquaintances that I don't want to offend, they're assigned a level of access to my page. They can see some things, they can't see some things... And if I really don't want to see what they're saying, I just tell facebook not to post it on my stream. You can tell it "more about so & so vs. less about so & so"
So people who are saying things that I'm not terribly interested in... I just tell facebook not to show me so much about them. I have some friends from high school that are now stay at home Mom's and that's cool... but I really don't need updates on what their kids are doing 5 or 6 times a day. Every so often it's fun to visit their page and see the new pictures... But no, don't need to know every single time their kids throw up. But they do seem to have like a stay at home mommy support network going, and that's awesome.
I haven't delisted anyone per se. I can't say that I have a huge number of friends on there, because I've been careful to make myself hard to find, and only invite the people that I want to be in contact with.
So there's not all that much drama, it's fun to post family photos and have all my brother's & sisters chime in on it. IT's fun to see what high school & middle school friends are up to now.
I've actually gone and met with one of my friends that I hadn't seen since high school... and we did it as a one on one thing and I don't know any celebrities, so it's not like she can use me to climb the social ladder.
I don't put any information on my facebook page about whether or not I'm in a relationship, so there's no drama about whether or not I'm single. I just didn't fill any of that out - because I'm not defined by whether or not I'm in a relationship or not.
I also don't post things that are too personal in nature - I could have posted that there was a death in the family a couple of times, but seriously... I don't want to have 40 some acquaintances of various amounts commenting on that or trying to say something comforting about it - the people that are important to me already know. I will post a picture of a new bike or a pretty thing that I drove past.



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