Digital cleanse. Who should I delete from my phone

[wildfellhall]

And social media?

I feel I have numbers of people I don't remember and I'm still friends with people on Facebook who I am basically not in touch with in any other way.

I would love to unfollow but I never get round to it. And I always wonder if it looks rude; though there must be ways to be unseen.

Interested to hear anyone with a clear policy.

Nobody on MN knows you or who you have in your contacts. It’s a decision for yourself, nobody else.

Personally I like having old work, school etc friends that I wouldn’t otherwise see on my social media. It’s a nice way to see little snippets of their life and vice versa. I do understand that some people are more private though and feel differently about this. As a rule of thumb if you care enough about them that you’re worried about causing offence by unfollowing then surely they’re important enough to keep in your friends list?

Thanks, of course I am able to make these decisions I'm just sometimes inspired by people who have a clear policy!

How bizarre

Delete numbers you arent in contact with

Delete people you dont speak to on social media

Its fairly simple really

My policy is: If I would speak to them in the street, then we’re friends. If I wouldn’t give them the time of day I remove them. Hence I have about 70 friends, when I first joined fb I had about 300.

I can understand the logic of removing unwanted contacts from social media, but what’s the point of deleting them from your phone? It’s not like they cost you anything, or you can run out of space.

I know what you’re getting at and did this several years back.

I keep all sorts of people as contacts, but I label them very clearly so ‘Jim’ becomes ‘Jim Cambridge plumber’.

On Facebook I went entirely offline for a few years but encouraged anyone who wished to contact me in the meantime to do so via email. Did they? Did they fuck. 😂

When I came back onto Facebook I therefore deleted every single friend apart from those who were actually living in my local area and whom I might run into in real life. I then added some local people whom I knew. Facebook is just a local social network for me now, plus groups.

I never bother to delete phone numbers. Social media I went through and culled my "friends" when DD was born. I don't post pictures of my children a lot but I wanted to be sure that only people that I actually knew/liked were on my profile.

The thing with my phone that has made a big difference to how I use it is turning off notifications. I get notified for WhatsApp messages/calls as well as regular phone calls but that's it.