Confession.

[dakcp2001]

I just quietly unfriended 37 people on facebook. After an odd encounter of hearing from a friend who ran into an old high school classmate who seemed to know every detail of my life, I looked and realized this person is one of those facebook creepers. You know the ones, the ones who are your friend, but you forget because they never post. It is creepy when you realize that although you forget they are there, they know every detail about you.

Anyhow, when my Fb friend list just got a trim. I cut everyone who I dont actually hear from or dont seem to be active. How long until people start to notice? lol.... It was such a good feeling, I want to keep cutting. But I am now down to just those I am pretty close with.

 

[Katy Belle]

I need to do the same. We went to our old home town last weekend for Easter. At church this acquaintance came up and told me that she keeps up with me on facebook. I am not friends with her She said she is friends with a lot of my friends and reads my posts. Creepy. She said she reads, but doesn't post. Creepy. I guess there is nothing I can do about her...just not post on her friends' walls.

 

[southern_redhead]

I guess there is nothing I can do about her...just not post on her friends' walls.

I believe you can set your privacy so that only friends can see your posts. I would look into that.

I'm totally with the OP. I trimmed my FB friends from almost 200 to 17 when I did my "you never comment, you never leave me a message, I never hear from you" cutting. In the end, I just said **** it and deactivated my page. I have the people I want to talk to on Skype and I have their numbers to text them.

 

[piperdown]

I've been doing this a little at a time. In the initial excitement of FB, I accepted alot of friend requests from high school classmates, even ones I didn't really remember.

I went through last week, and if I couldn't actually remember interacting with them in high school, they were unfriended.

 

[Danemom]

A girl at work calls it "spybook" instead of facebook.

 

[krcit]

I need to do that also. I did it about a year ago but I need to 'weed' again.

 

[FlyingDumbo]

Haha I was heartbroken when my number of friends went down by 1, still have no idea who it was that unfriended me. Guess we were not too close if I could not even figure out who it was. lol. Still have no idea. Then one day I looked through my list and realized many of these people are not "friends". If I saw them at the mall I wound not want to stop and say hello. So I did a huge cut down to immediate family and close friends.

 

[cat83]

I skimmed too, but of the remaining friends I created a list of those who cannot see my pictures or any posts I choose to keep hidden from them.

 

[KristenF]

I need to do the same. We went to our old home town last weekend for Easter. At church this acquaintance came up and told me that she keeps up with me on facebook. I am not friends with her She said she is friends with a lot of my friends and reads my posts. Creepy. She said she reads, but doesn't post. Creepy. I guess there is nothing I can do about her...just not post on her friends' walls.

You can up your security.

 

[ols386]

I need to do the same. We went to our old home town last weekend for Easter. At church this acquaintance came up and told me that she keeps up with me on facebook. I am not friends with her She said she is friends with a lot of my friends and reads my posts. Creepy. She said she reads, but doesn't post. Creepy. I guess there is nothing I can do about her...just not post on her friends' walls.

Did you not realize that she could read your posts through friends on FB?

I think some how or another you can block that.

I don't necessarily think it's creepy to read and not post, but not sure why one would have a FB account and not post at all.

 

[SandrA9810]

You can set your limits to just "friends", but I think the preset allows for "friends of friends". When I created it, I put it at just friends for everything. If some one wants to add me, I find them because you cant find me.

 

[SookieStackhouse]

Haha I was heartbroken when my number of friends went down by 1, still have no idea who it was that unfriended me. Guess we were not too close if I could not even figure out who it was. lol. Still have no idea. Then one day I looked through my list and realized many of these people are not "friends". If I saw them at the mall I wound not want to stop and say hello. So I did a huge cut down to immediate family and close friends.

Once I noticed my friends list was down by one, and I figured out who it was by looking at my phone before I synced it with my computer. It was my neighbor. What I did to make her delete me is completely a mystery to me. I didn't know her that well, we talked a little bit on the phone and in passing outside. She added me and I accepted, then a couple months later she deleted me. I don't know what her problem is.

 

[ols386]

I think I only have 47 friends on FB. LOL

Some people I've noticed have like 400-500 friends, and I always wonder, how do you have that many friends? Course I guess FB friends aren't exactly the same as friends IRL.

 

[CurlyGirl]

I had to "lock down" my FB page after I found out that "someone" I am less than fond of was able to see my FB page through a mutual friend that I didn't realize we had. I totally blocked that person and went to super private mode where only friends (and not friends of friends) can see my things. If I hear that this person is using the mutual friend's FB to look at my stuff, then I'll block the mutual friend because I do not need that. I went super duper private so that nobody can really even find me. That means I have to friend people but that's ok with me. So long stalkers!

 

[SookieStackhouse]

I go through the "Friend of Friends" loophole (or lack of security) to creep on my ex husband.

 

[disykat]

I don't necessarily think it's creepy to read and not post, but not sure why one would have a FB account and not post at all.

I don't think it's creepy either. What is wrong with reading what people are putting out there?

Most of my "friends" on facebook requested me, so I accepted. They clearly invited me to read what they post. I rarely put stuff out there that everyone can see, though I occasionally respond, like, or message the people I really want to talk to. I fail to see how that makes me creepy?

It sounds to me like some people really need to rework their privacy settings and watch what they are posting if people they haven't invited to read their posts are.

 

[handinpocket]

I had a "friend" that would post on my photos just so her friends that I didn't like, could see my photos. I defriended that sorry excuse for a human quicker than you can say "get a life loser".

 

[Nolcrest]

I don't find it creepy at all that someone that I friended actually reads my stuff. Isn't that the purpose of facebook. Then again, I only friend those that I am actually friends with. If I need to set privacy settings for people then I just don't friend them.

 

[avgeek81]

I usually just defriend people who post alot of junk and clog up my newsfeed. I know you can block that stuff but its easier to defriend them if they arent someone i care enough about to want to see thier stuff. As far as people seeing my stuff. I only post stuff that i dont mind people seeing.

The only thing is that i post alot of pics of my friend's kid. She knows this and doesnt mind. People who dont really know me might think he is my kid even though i do post pics of him with his parents or aunt.

 

[LuvOrlando]

Yay you OP, you just took a little bit of yourself back