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Will i be unreasonable to NOT accept friend request

36 replies

Wtfismyname · 01/01/2023 21:03

So, ex mother-in-law (not that we actually married but long term relationship) has finally got social media. Has sent me a friend request. That is a hard no from me! But aibu? I don't really talk to them anymore, odd text here and there, civil when we speak or meet. Obviously,I am happy for them to be in GD life via her dad, but just do not want them on my social media page. That's not unreasonable right?

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HiccupHorrendousHaddock · 02/01/2023 10:28

She may not even have sent you a friend request herself. Facebook and its intrusive algorithms are forever trying to get me to friend my nieces and my MIL but neither I nor they have explicitly sent a friend request in either direction.

Just ignore it.

Fraaahnces · 02/01/2023 10:28

Can she see the OP’s page if OP just ignores her and leaves it hanging without declining it? (Dying to find out for my own reasons.)

Fimofriend · 02/01/2023 10:32

I have put all my FB friends in different groups. Some of them are in more than one group. Then I choose which group can see the post I want to make. So I just accept those kind of friend requests and they just assume I post even more rarely than I actually do because they can only see my general holiday greetings and stuff like that.

Athenen0ctua · 02/01/2023 10:34

BeeColourful · 01/01/2023 21:24

Why would it be unreasonable? You weren’t serious, you weren’t even married.

Did you miss the long term bit and the child together? My uncle and partner have been together 40 years, just didn't marry. Another family member is providing 24/7 care to her elderly partner of 27 years, never married.

Shannith · 02/01/2023 10:51

BeeColourful · 02/01/2023 09:58

@PurpleButterflyWings @midnightfirework Longevity and proof of sex are not indications of seriousness.

If you haven’t made that commitment then you aren’t serious.

Hahahahhahahaha.

Did I just fall into a 1930s glitch in the matrix?

FatGirlSwim · 02/01/2023 11:03

Accept and restrict?

BeeColourful · 02/01/2023 11:52

HiccupHorrendousHaddock · 02/01/2023 10:28

She may not even have sent you a friend request herself. Facebook and its intrusive algorithms are forever trying to get me to friend my nieces and my MIL but neither I nor they have explicitly sent a friend request in either direction.

Just ignore it.

Those are different. Those are friend suggestions, people you may know, not friend requests.

BeeColourful · 02/01/2023 11:52

Athenen0ctua · 02/01/2023 10:34

Did you miss the long term bit and the child together? My uncle and partner have been together 40 years, just didn't marry. Another family member is providing 24/7 care to her elderly partner of 27 years, never married.

No, I didn’t miss it. I covered that in my last post.

Comtesse · 02/01/2023 11:54

BeeColourful · 02/01/2023 11:52

No, I didn’t miss it. I covered that in my last post.

U ok hun?

Willmafrockfit · 02/01/2023 11:55

its not unreasonable
does she see her GD much?

Athenen0ctua · 02/01/2023 13:33

BeeColourful · 02/01/2023 09:58

@PurpleButterflyWings @midnightfirework Longevity and proof of sex are not indications of seriousness.

If you haven’t made that commitment then you aren’t serious.

What commitment? Marriages are easy to end. Having a child with someone is more of a commitment.

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