No one wants to be unfriended. It brings back all those bad feelings of high school that you thought you got over years ago.
Thing is, sometimes you can’t avoid it. Sometimes, you’ve added someone to your Facebook network and well, they’re just annoying. Maybe they post non-stop about their baby. Or maybe their Facebook feed is nothing more than tweets and blip.fm updates. Or the one that drives me most insane…they just keep pimping and promoting their business over and over, all day long.
You’ve tried hiding them. But even though you no longer see their self-promotional garbage throughout the day, that doesn’t stop the fact that they still keep sending you email after Facebook email inviting you to partake of their self-promotional garbage.
Let’s face it, not every one understands social media (or that business is conducted via Pages not profiles – I’ll admit, this is a pet peeve of mine). Not everyone gets the subtleties of basic netiquette; treat others as you like to be treated. And I can’t imagine anyone that likes to be inundated with self-promotion after self-promotion.
In which case, it’s time we cut our loses and break our Facebook ties. It’s actually a lot easier to do than you’d imagine (and doesn’t even require photos to walk you through – but I will anyway).
- Go directly to the obnoxious one’s profile page
- Scroll down on the left hand side to the bottom of the profile info and click on “Remove from Friends”
- You’ll then get a pop up asking if you’d like to “Remove from Friends” – click on that button and you’re good to go
That’s it. You’re done. I told you it was easy.
And if you later change your mind, you can always just go back to their profile and add them again – lather, rinse, repeat.
Same steps for removing yourself from a Fan Page – just click on “Remove Me from Fans.”
Be forewarned…the powers that be are currently in the process of changing the vocabulary to “likes” instead of “fans” I’m sure the wording will change soon, but not the actual process.
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I almost certainly would not have contemplated this was beneficial two or 3 years back, yet it is fascinating how age evolves the way you respond to stuff, thank you for the blog article it really is pleasing to see something wise now and then rather than the usual rubbish masquerading as blogs and forums over the net. Regards
Alegria, thanks so much for the kind words. And you’re right, just a couple years ago, the mere thought of “unfriending” would have seemed so outrageous. I mean, what would they think?!?! Then again, I’m sure we never would have ever considered our “friends” to number in the hundreds either
And I doubt we’d share such trivial details of our lives with virtual strangers. That said…I love it!