to consider deleting my Facebook account?

[SpeedyGonzalez]

I loathe this:

FRIENDSHIP REQUEST: VAGUELY PERIPHERAL EX-SCHOOL ASSOCIATE WOULD LIKE TO BECOME FRIENDS WITH YOU. ACCEPT OR IGNORE?

MESSAGE: Speedyyyy! How you doing? SO glad I've found you on fb, I have such fond memories of you from school...yadda yadda yadda...

SPEEDY: Hey there, Vaguely Peripheral Ex-School Associate! How are you, how nice to hear from you! Well, I'm mum to 20 equally speedy mice and I live under a the floorboards of a Mexican restaurant, etc etc, how about you, did you become an astronaut like you always wanted?

Surely this is just rude?

i dont accept people i vaguely know

or i do then i delete them

i have a fb account for mnetters

but yes its bloody rude

delete her shes a twat

are you coming tomorrow?

If you don't like it then delete it. Can't see what the fuss is about. Surely posting what you just have is as bad as any FB update.

Surely that's a problem with the 'friend' not Facebook?

Oh but that happened to me recently...got a bucket load of tumbleweed ...fast forward to today and get a message from old school person/friend and she says she has not seen my message till today.

Accept and delete, tis the humane way of not having any rude friends.

i recon!!! i acept have a good laugh at account and gloat or think you bitch always were pretty and gifted hate you delete...

what's tumbleweed?

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The stuff blowing past that is.

I know that loads of my friends only use their facebook accounts occasionally. I can go weeks without checking it, too.

Yes, it is rude of her not to reply if she has clearly been active elsewhere on the site. However, she may have been planning on a longer reply and thought 'I'll do that later when I have more time' and promptly forgot.

I have deleted my facebook account before. I joined again and now use it completely differently. I never post status updates. I have my security settings very high. My friends can only see friends that they also have in their friends list. I accept anyone I know or knew, however vaguely, in the past.

facebook is for drears.

i actually just opened one this week to see what the fuss is about, its ok, i have had requests from people i know from work or vaguely know - with these i accepted looked to see what was exciting about them out of work then deleted. Others i just blatantly ignored and my real friends i accepted. It has novelty appeal atm but i suspect i will close my account in a month.

What i loathe more than anything is those dreadful friend harvesters. The ones that are a friend of someone, then go through every one of their friends friends and send them requests to bump up their own number of friends. I've accepted one or two of these myself, say hello and the feckers never reply. So they get deleted.

I don't know why anyone would have a facebook account in the first place.

I looked a few of friedns and I was appalled by the banal drivel posted by all of them.

"oh dear, i was early to my yoga class this morning, silly me. Oh well, now I'm enjoying a nice coffee outside the club with the half hour I have to spare"

One of my friends felt the need to tell the world of this via her iPhone from the scene of the action outside the gym. The rest are most the same.

FOR. FUCK. SAKE. GET. A. LIFE.

I hate facebook.

If you want to be friends with someone, you will be, and you'll keep in touch by meeting up, emailing, or phoning. Facebook does not enable friendships -- you'd find a way

There is a reason you no longer keep in touch with certain people. Because you don't have anything in common.

Facebook is really nothing to do with friendship. It's about try hards desperate for exogenous recognition of their accomplishments/possessions/banal so-called witticisms.

The world is a better place without it in my life. And I speak as someone who lived abroad for years.

And all the data is being spied on by marketing consultants desperate to learn what makes certain demographics/sub groups tick, so they can flog you more shit.

A1980, you need more interesting friends!!!

I started using FB when I lived abroad, my sister still does and my friends are all over the world, so it's great to watch their DC grow up and have a laugh with them, I do have my privacy set to max though, I don't have people on there I don't know and only friends can see my stuff.

please do what the hell you like, and don't bother us about it.

I don't think it's possible to completely delete an account, you can only deactivate it, or have they changed it recently?

You deactivate it and as long as you leave it alone for two weeks then it goes. But I do agree with Coalition and think otchayaniye is talking bollocks...

isn't accepting and then deleting just a bit passive aggressive and weird.

I deleted mine, felt nothing but huge relief. Al my real friends have got my mobile number and my email anyway.

Delete, delete, delete.

FB = pile of poo.

YANBU Facebook is the work of the devil.

Some people need their pathetic lives constantly validating by others and that's all fb is about.

I deleted mine months ago.

A1980 are you my double?! I hate FB too!

I do think it's sad people post details of their everyday lives on it.

Start living life rather than posting drivvel about it!