I have a friend on facebook. We were very good friends before I had my first child and then she dropped me like a stone. Shes had a child since and got back in touch suggesting meet ups etc but we never got round to it.
Anyway, its a weekly occurrence that she will ask me to like a page of a new business that her friends or family are starting, not always a new page, just the same pages over and over with the occasional new one. At the start I would like them all but then DH and I were starting a business and she showed no support whatsoever for it so I stopped liking any of hers. Petty yes. I know.
Also, so as not to drip feed, she completely ignored the invitation to our wedding.
But now she is starting her own business and not only requested that I liked the page, but also messaged me about 10 minutes after the request came through to ask why I hadn't liked it already. Then proceeded to rant through messages for about an hour about how stressful it all was and asking my advice (I have experience in the field.)
I honestly felt like telling her to fuck off and say that I would have been willing to support her, even in a hands on unpaid fashion until she was up and running, if she had shown even a tiny bit of interest in our business, or in me, for that matter. She can support every other person in the worlds new business, except mine!! But I didn't. I congratulated her and sympathised with her like a plank, and now I am kicking myself for it.
I want to unfriend her and be done with it but she WILL notice and she WILL message me to ask whats wrong. So I still have her on my friends list and I am quietly seething every time a new request comes through.
Someone had me a grip. Please.