Do you delete people off Facebook if they don't post/are inactive?

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I don't really post on Facebook and never have. I recently logged back in as I wanted to use messenger, and realised that my Facebook profile picture was around 10 years old from when I was 16 so I've now updated it.

Since being on it I've realised a lot of people have removed me as a friend, including people I was best friends with as a teenager. I still have lots of mutual friends with them (like 50 mutual friends), so it's not like they culled everyone from their teenage years.

Would people delete me because I never posted and my picture was 10 years old, so they just presumed I didn't use it anymore?

I just feel kind of sad about it, I wish I had kept in contact with friends

Were you keeping in touch with them by other means?

Maybe they've deleted their accounts?

I don't know OP but i also never use my facebook account and have also found lots of people i wouldnt expect to have seemingly unfriended me.

Many of them however do follow me (and i follow back) on instagram (which i do use occasionally) so i wonder if maybe its something that facebook does to inactive accounts? Who knows.

I sometimes delete people I don't actually speak to any more

I wouldn't think about how much they post

Yes i did. Including people who I haven't spoken to in a year. My list is currently like 50 people. Happy place

Yes I do. Every couple of years (so not frequently) I will go through and if a person hasn’t posted themselves or interacted with my posts occasionally, then I unfriend them. I keep my friends list manageable, and if I’ve had no interaction with someone in a few years then they go.

It's weird because a few of the people who have deleted me were my best friends for the 5 years we were at secondary school together. We were so close, like sisters.

I don't know why I'm so bad at keeping in touch with people. I live a 5 minute walk away from someone who used to be my best friend, and now we're like strangers. No arguments or anything, just drifted apart due to being in different seasons of life

I do I've deleted family members who have deactivated accounts incase they came back hacked.

Yes I regularly delete the lurkers. You can always send another friend request

If the only connection I have with someone is Facebook, and we never even communicate through that, then yes I delete people.

If you haven't contacted them or missed them in 10 years they're obviously not a part of your life now, or you're not a part of theirs anyway.

Yes I do cull mine frequently, I take off people that don’t post or comment anything at all, people that post too much annoying stuff etc
I like to keep my social media quite locked down and I don’t want to share my content with people that aren’t active (and interesting).

You don't need facebook to use messenger. I deactivated last year and still use messenger.

Well it's not weird really though is it? You WERE best friends now you don't even say hello despite being 5mins away. You both stopped bothering and you've moved on. They've deleted you because you're insignificant. If you'd like to rekindle a friendship send a friends request and if they accept it, make some personal 1 2 1 contact. If you don't wanna do that, I'd say you're not that bothered and don't understand your sadness

Facebook had changed massively over the last 10 years. People went from adding lots of people and being quite active to thinning down the friends, posting less and getting much lower engagement on their posts too.

I wouldn't read too much in to this.

If I delete people from FB, it’s generally because I haven’t interacted with them at all in real life for years.

People I’m still interacting with occasionally in real life will stay on my FB friends list even if they hardly ever use FB.

There’s also people who I’ve deleted from my friends list because they posted way too much stuff and it got annoying, although that was before you could snooze or unfollow individuals.

Yes I do. It's weird to have people watching your life and not commenting or sharing back.

Why would you expect to be kept as a friend if you're not a friend?

How confident are you in your ability to differentiate between a person who has removed you as a friend and a person who has deleted their profile?

She said she can still see they have 50 friends in common.

I cull every couple of years and delete people I don't know or can't be bothered with but added in the first place so as not to cause offence. Ie I accepted a friend request from a woman I don't particularly like - I find her abrupt and rude - but my husband likes her so I left her on for a while, then muted her and restricted what she can see, then quietly dumped her.

Yes, I delete people who are totally inactive and we’ve never been close or haven’t seen each other in more than 10 years, especially if they have no profile picture. What’s the point then?

That means nothing if the friendhip didn't last past that. I in no contact with my best friends from secondary. Life took us on different paths. It's fine. No need to keep them on fb

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I’m more likely to delete people who over-post.

Isn’t Facebook kind of “dead” though? Or at least, dead for its original purpose of people sharing photos and statuses and keeping it touch. I still use it loads for things like Facebook marketplace and the groups for very niche groups of people eg parents groups in the area, people who are planning holidays to whatever specific location… that kind of thing. Virtually no one I follow uses it to post regular photos and keep it touch with life updates anymore and not for many years.

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