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To Want To Delete This 'Friend' From Facebook

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midori1999 · 15/10/2010 15:48

as I find her twee status updates annoying beyond all belief? Hmm

I have no idea why I accepted her request in the first place, tbh, but deleting her will no doubt cause bad feeling. She is a dreadful gossip and although I am not sure she has malicious intent, she does gossip about things people would prefer kept secret or have told her in confidence. She is one of these people who pretends to be interested and caring, but really just wants the 'goss'.

Her status updates are things like 'had such a wonderful day with my lovely friend, I am so lucky' or 'is looking forward to seeing her wonderful husband tonight' or 'had a wonderful day with her three boys' (two DC and her DH) or 'had a wonderful day making lunch for her amazing husband and his friend from work, I do so love entertaining and making people happy' or 'was given an amazing gift today by a fantastic friend, I am so very lucky'...

Gah! It sounds even worse now I have written it down, I am not kidding you. I mean, doesn't the woman ever get annoyed or irritated? Is there nothing imperfect about her whole wonderful life?!

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fastedwina · 15/10/2010 17:21

I think the SIL has defriended me then, LOL. Just as well as I don't particularly like her and her puke inducing posts between her and her husband were highly amusing but cringing.

CinemaParadiso · 15/10/2010 17:25

An FB "friend" of mine had a discussion with her DH on her FB status about trying for DC no. 4:

X: X thinks she is ready for DC no. 4
X's DH: Let's get this crappy year out of the way first
X: Okay, that'll mean DC no. 3 will be 2 after Xmas, so that's a nice gap
X's DH: Yes, that sounds good.

I have now blocked her from my FB feed as her status updates are generally unbearable!!!

bandgeek · 15/10/2010 21:06

I had a friend who got himself a girlfriend earlier this year and every update after that related to his 'gorgeous girlfriend'. It made me boak.

Anyway, I defriended him last week as he decided to ditch all his friends for his girlfriend and hangs around with her friends now instead. He is not 17 either, he is 32!!! Ugh.

HeadlessPrinceBilly · 15/10/2010 21:12

I've got one of these but can't delete as a relative! Its always..having a perfect night with my perfect husband and children in my perfect house in my perfect life. Whatever, if it was so perfect you wouldn't spend half your day on FB wittering about how bloody perfect you are!

PortoFangO · 15/10/2010 21:21

My dad came to stay the other weekend and for some strange reason (benefit of hindsight) persuaded him he really needed to join up to FB - "easy to keep in touch, dad, and see photos of GCs"

Lord, he has too much time on his hands! He has no idea of protocol. He publishes all sorts of private stuff all over the place. He's been linking my photos to loads of people by tagging himself. Every single time I log on, he is there, waiting to pounce.....I love my dad, and can't block him.

DH has been pretty good though - "Porto'sDad, your profile photo is positively scary, can't you find a better one" etc etc Grin

moominmarvellous · 15/10/2010 22:28

thereisalight - I had a facebook friend do this, but turned out she'd been through a break up so she quit facebook for a while then came back - might have been something similar with your friend?

I have another friend however, who did not avoid facebook following her split, and now every day says things like 'So AndSo is walking on sunshine' 'So AndSo is luvvvviiing the single life' 'So Andso's got that Friday feeling and it's only Monday!'

Eurgh. Unnaturally happy, I had to block her Grin

saffy85 · 15/10/2010 22:50

Hide her dull as crap status updates. She'll get a complex if you delete her as everyone else is probably sick of this shit too and might follow your lead and get rid. You might start a mass exodous.

YANBU. I hate this crap too. Most of it is made up bollocks anyway. Or am I the only one who refuses point blank to to make dinner for "lovely" DP and his "lovely" mates? What's wrong with saying heres the phone, heres the menu, get your own fucking dinner?

UnquietDad · 15/10/2010 22:58

I have a couple as friends who are constantly doing the "love you darling" and "oh, I am so lucky to have X as a boyfriend" stuff on FB. Some of their comments to each other are seriously of the sort which make me want to say "FFS get a room!"

It's not as if they are still in the honeymoon period - they've been together 3 or 4 years!

chalat · 15/10/2010 23:08

I've twigged on the occasions I've been 'defriended'. One is a good friend who just couldn't cope with fb and shut her account after a fortnight. Another was studying and didn't want the potential of distractions, came back after exams and we are 'refriended'!
Two occasions though have left me Confused or Angry. Got rather wound up about that and tightened my security so they couldn't access my profile as it is visible to friends only.
The number of friends fluctuated which made me wonder but I realised when they no longer appeared on Mutual friends' lists.

I am rather fussy who I add though Grin

PotPourri · 15/10/2010 23:17

How do you block the newfeed (thick person!) I have defriended loads of people - mind you, I can;t seem to find that since the last update either

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