A few days ago, I decided to remove a “friend” from my social media accounts. We used to have a nice friendship, we’d regularly catch over coffee or drinks but that has all changed. We haven’t spoke in nearly a year, she now never makes the effort to contact me and is still friends with a girl who used to be one of my best friends.
The latter causes me a lot of pain as we used to be part of a friendship group which became toxic. Long story short, I couldn’t keep up with the ring leader’s negativity and distanced myself from the group. My former best friend decided to choose the other girls over me, even though I was a better friend to her. The friend who I have now removed was the only one who I kept in contact with from the group (she also distanced herself) but in the last two years, she’s become very close again with my former best friend. This made me very upset and I felt paranoid that they were secretly talking about me behind my back, which is probably what they did.
So with that in mind and the fact that she hasn’t contacted me since last September and I’ve heard nothing from her over lockdown, I decided to remove her. Her posts often included my former best friend so I was always reminded that she was very close with her. I just felt like our friendship had truly ran its course.
Did I do the right thing or am I being petty?