To think that people who announce Facebook clear outs are just looking for attention?

[Rhine]

Yes it's another Facebook one, but once again someone has just posted on my feed announcing a "'clear out". Why do it? If your going to delete people just do it and don't tell anyone, they'll be none the wiser. It's attention seeking isn't it.
The one that really gets my goat is when people say things like " congratulations if you are reading this you've survived my latest cull". Get the fuck over yourselves! You are not as important as you think.

AIBU?!

I know its weird like you're supposed to grateful you made it through, wtf?

Reply with "what a good idea" and delete her before she deletes you or worse still you get congratulated for surviving the purge

I'm not against the idea of deleting people you don't know of barely see anymore, but I don't understand why people announce it on their feed? I've deleted people for making racist and homophobic comments before now and but I've not felt the need to announce it.

Haha i love being congratulated on still making the cut oh do fuck off dear

its just stupid, like u say, just delete who u don't want on your feed, who actually cares!

I'm with you! So pathetic, what do they expect? "oh please keep me!"

I'm currently taking a break from fb for the stupid attention seeking stuff "what should I have for lunch....."

"black or blue shoe!...."

"like for nice comment from me...."

GET A PHONE AND CALL SOMEONE

I had a FB Friend who always used to post about "Oh, time for another friend cull", "Yay! Love having a good old friend clear out" etc

So, one day I de-friended her and she was SO pissed off. It became a big thing.

Of course it is. There used to be 'defriending amnesty' days on livejournal all the bloody time, going years back. It was a way to attention seek, get validation and preen in it. They never actually defriended anyone, regardless of who commented.

A friend of mine did this on facebook, then defriended anyone who didn't like or comment. She's now pissed off that people aren't bothering to friend her again- so all attention seeking and all passive aggressive.

Yup, irritating arseholes. Bin them.

It would make me defriend them quietly actually, and block them. Does being a friend mean that you have to upkeep an acceptable number of "likes" and "comments"? Sounds like hard work!

I don't do drama. Life's too short.

I like to comment with "I'll save you the bother" and then deleting them.

Love that Canary

YANBU. Pure attention-seeking. If you feel like that, why not just go ahead and do it without announcing it? Or are you so self-important that you think there are people out there who might be so concerned that you no longer appear on their FB feed, despite having met them twice in person, that they might be sitting worrying away about it?

I had one weird man I'd never met, who defriended me three times. I only accepted his refriends because I couldn't remember who he was but the third time I remembered!

Bumpies you might as well be describing aibu.

YANBU, it's obnoxious when people do this. Occasionally I feel the need to get rid of people on my list but it would never occur to me to announce it- that just seems unnecessarily cruel and attention-seeking.

You wouldn't do it in RL would you? Y'know, call a meeting with all of your friends and declare that you're going to be deliberately losing touch with some of them. Bizarre.

I also hate the 'Congratulations! You survived the cull!' type posts. As if one is supposed to feel grateful/flattered or something.

Recently, someone I know posted that they were planning to have a 'cull' and asked people to respond if they particularly wanted to stay friends. Cue lots of 'Ooh me! Pick me!' responses. Bit nauseating tbh. I didn't respond but have remained on the person's friend list nonetheless.

I've witnessed many of these culls, I ignore them all.

If you can threaten drop people so easily and publicly, then they arent a loss to me.

I did it recently, there were more and more far right posts, and Britain first shite getting into my news feed from people I either barely know or don't remember. I announced it because I wanted them to think about it. Then I deleted them anyway, as they were obvious wankers.

LiberalLibertines , I expect that message will be water off a ducks back because if you barely know or don't remember them then they probably feel the same about you and will either ignore or not notice.

At least you deleted them and weren't doing the obvious attention seeking that most of the defriending posts are. Sadly, most of them are just attention seeking.

YANBU it's always the same drama queen on mine.

She's actually a lovely woman in RL but on Facebook she's a nightmare. Every personal drama is played out and then she declares she's off. Only to reactivate her account a few days later. I assume she's still at it, I've hidden her now.

People feed it I think with the "what's up Hun?" etc.

I have a couple friends that do the whole "I'm only keeping true friends. Reply if you want me to keep you on". I call their bluff, I haven't been cut yet.

The worse thing is, when the status is made by your next door neighbours cousins son who used to sit next to you in kindergarten, who added you in the first place, and who you have had no interaction with for the past twenty years other than the Facebook add.

And you made the cut!!!! Yay!!! Wait....if you made the cut, who the fuck didn't make it?!!

I have someone on my FB friends list who does this. It drives me crackers. I would dearly love to delete her myself but... She's my sister.

I announced one recently, didn't realise it was such a crime!

TBH, I mostly got rid of people I knew years ago and didn't hear from much. It wasn't because of a hissy fit, just a tidy up, so I did a status asking people to re-add me if they felt they wanted to stay (I have quite a few older people who like to see my posts but don't really get the whole "Like to say you've seen it" thing).

I'm quite tight on my privacy settings though, so try to keep my friends list to people I'm happy to share information with

I was cut off in a friend cull. Should I change my name from spanky2 to billynomates? I loath FB for the attention seekers, but do stay in contact with family on it. Hidden the, 'post if you love your daughter' or the attention seekers.

I quite agree. I just do an occasional Facebook cull and re categorising of friends to acquaintances without announcing.

Announcing is like those who announce a flounce from forums.

But why announce PurplePidjin? Just do it and if they don't notice then they aren't that bothered.