Facebook

[Tri Girl]

I'm bad. I unfriend people all the time. About once a year I go through my friends list and if we haven't spoken directly on FB (messages) or we don't comment on each other's posts every now and then (showing that you do keep up with me and vice versa) then you're gone. Sometimes these people will refriend me later and I'll decline. If we're not into each other's lives I see no point. I also will not be friends of someone who is a friend of someone else. I don't need a large friend collection just to have one. I like to keep my "friends" around 150- and at least half of that is family.
Yeah, I did delete some people during the election season because of hateful or ignorant things they would post. I hid even more. 'Aint nobody got time for such drama!

[Trek420]

I've unfriended one person, someone I dated some time ago. It just felt awkward. I'm facebook friends with those I know IRL with two exceptions. Two are distant cousins and they are on the East Coast. We've never actually met but like to keep in touch. The other exception is from TE!

I don't use my real name on FB. I'm looking for full time work and too many HR people scour FB for oddities, political leanings, your drunk office party photos etc. I lean left, never drink and don't think of myself as odd unless having 7 bikes in the apartment is odd. Well it isn't here but this is TE.

Anyway you never know so I leave my name off.

During this election season there was one friend I kinda blocked. I changed settings so I would not see each and every blasted post of his. Funny thing is we agree on most things but as others have said it's just that he was so rabid. I don't vilify those I disagree with. I'm amused, puzzled, perplexed, interested in why we see things differently, would like to talk it out over coffee or pizza and beer but "they" (whoever "they" are at the moment) are not evil!