I am sooooo sick of Facebook drama!!! I am seriously thinking of ditching about 3/4's of my "friends" because I'm so sick of it! I just found out that a "friend" who I used to work with is giving someone who I am no longer friends with info on me. I got rid of anyone having to do with this ex-friend because she is a total drama queen and I just didn't want to deal with it anymore. (Long story short....I'm friends with someone she hates and she pretty much made me choose.) Now the ex-friend has become very close to the ex-coworker....I didn't even know that they knew each other.
I'm also sick of people getting mad at me if I'm "friends" with someone on Facebook that they don't like. It's so childish! I keep Facebook because I have a very big extended family that is all over the country and the world....I have a couple of cousins in Afghanistan and it's actually easier to communicate through Facebook than anything else. Anyway, it's the best way to keep in touch with family but I'm seriously thinking of dumping most of my "friends."
It's so ridiculous! Anyone else having or had issues like this? FWIW....I'm a 43 year old married mother of 2! I really don't need this crap!
It's not that the ex-friend is an ex-Facebook friend. She has never been on Facebook. She's someone that I was friends with in real life and now we are not. I was friends with a couple of her family members on FB and I deleted them when we had our falling out. I just discovered that she has become good friends with someone who is on FB with me....a former coworker. I dont want anything to do with the ex-friend....WAY too much drama!! Don't want to get into everything that happened on here but she is the kind of person that enjoys destroying lives! I want no part of it! And I don't want to be associated with anyone who has her in their lives!
I don't use Facebook and have no desire to. I think it's a tool for some to communicate with others, but much of what I hear on a daily basis from family, DISboards, students, etc. is this kind of stuff. The nature of the beast with Facebook is that it invites drama due to the quick and immediate nature of communication.
Facebook by its nature invites drama and wants drama to happen, as it means more posts, more users and more profit for Zuckerberg. Drama means people are interacting on the site on a continual basis in order to prove a point, end an argument, or in many cases, continue the arguments. Or, people are just adding friends to get their post count up - nevermind that they don't know those people and that also invites drama as well. Keeps the site relevant at all times of the day!
I am struck by the fact that your posts are full of drama, and therefore, that is probably what you are going to get on Facebook. You don't need to justify why are friends with someone, nor why you aren't, yet here you are on here doing just that.
You are a grown woman, so engaging in this immature behaviour, is not necessary. If you don't like drama, then don't engage in it. And that means, ignore, unfriend, delete, etc.
Posting on here that you don't like drama on Facebook, is drama. And it also seems as if you are trying to decide who someone is friends with (forgive me if I've confused this), but that is not your business, and is creating drama as well.
Just do what is best for you, in an undrama like way, and you will be amazed at how little drama you will actually have in your life.
I don't engage in drama in any area of my life, and despite lots of drama around me, I don't have any drama in my own life. And with the rare occassion that someone tries to start drama, it doesn't go far at all, as I don't engage in that behaviour.
If you don't want drama on Facebook, then you don't need to have drama on Facebook, since it's your Facebook account. You are in charge of how you respond to drama, and whether or not you engage in the drama yourself.
Good luck OP! Tiger
