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Isn't it annoying when someone has blocked you on social media?

44 replies

cmforfun · 06/06/2024 19:07

Lighthearted.... I know this sounds pathetic but how annoying is this. Please say it's not just me?
I'll add it doesn't happen regularly!

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iamreallyabee · 06/06/2024 19:35

Yeah it's like I don't want to talk to you anyway and you are so important you have to block people

Ginkypig · 06/06/2024 20:11

cmforfun · 06/06/2024 19:28

Ah just in laws, we've lent money a few times and said no this time. Saw a status about cost of living and having to feed their kids beans on toast all week, while family members book holidays. We actually offered to have kids here for tea if it would help, no response. I went on for a nose earlier and we've both been blocked by husband and wife.

Totally petty of them and of me for caring but still irritating!

you shouldn’t care.

they have shown you they don’t (unless they’re getting something out of you)

LondonFox · 06/06/2024 20:18

Ok so here it goes!
My now DH had a girl obsessed with him.
They went to uni together for a year so I met her through that.
She added me, tried adding all my friends and family she never met etc. and was always messaging him.
At one point, 3y after graduatiion he blocked her from one social media. After two days she sent "Hi,why am I blocked on this? :) ". Ignored.
She tried moving into town where we li ed but since he did not want to help her she quickly moved back.
Seven years later without any contact she added him on Linkedin lol.
Again ignored but it was just bizarre.
We still use her as an example of delusion.

Whatafustercluck · 06/06/2024 20:25

It can be a blessing. I had a Facebook 'friend' I went to school with. She defriended and blocked me when I put something derogatory on my feed about UKIP voters. Turns out she's a raging racist (who knew?) who has raised little baby racists (now teenagers). I found it quite cleansing, actually. Just wish I'd got the chance to tell her what I thought before she flounced off.

Naran · 06/06/2024 20:28

cmforfun · 06/06/2024 19:28

Ah just in laws, we've lent money a few times and said no this time. Saw a status about cost of living and having to feed their kids beans on toast all week, while family members book holidays. We actually offered to have kids here for tea if it would help, no response. I went on for a nose earlier and we've both been blocked by husband and wife.

Totally petty of them and of me for caring but still irritating!

I'd be pretty glad they've blocked you.

I'd minimise contact with them and never lend them another penny.

A CF always cements their CF status by throwing some sort of tantrum when you refuse to do what they want.

They don't actually want food for their kids. Otherwise they'd have taken you up on your offer.

eastsheener · 06/06/2024 21:02

gocompare · 06/06/2024 19:23

Is that you Martha

😂😂😂

Foxyaus · 07/06/2024 05:16

I blocked my now DH's ex wife, after her and her current wife, on Facebook, added every single adult child of anyone he ever dated or was friends with. It was bizarre.

SpringerFall · 07/06/2024 05:19

baby reindeer? no would have no idea who does or doesnt I have no idea to look it up even if I wanted too

aurynne · 07/06/2024 06:41

I have no idea whether anuyne has blocked me, because I unfollow every person I "friend" straight away. But if anyone didn't want to talk to me, then blocking me would surely be a relief for me too?

CornedBeef451 · 07/06/2024 06:55

I generally find it amusing.

Stonewall blocked me on Twitter which I find hilarious.

CornedBeef451 · 07/06/2024 06:57

Oh, just remembered, someone sent me an abusive message on Tumblr and then blocked me before I could reply. That was annoying.

Butchyrestingface · 07/06/2024 07:04

@cmforfun In your case, I'd be thrilled they'd blocked you.

Do you still have to see them at family events?

mondaytosunday · 07/06/2024 07:06

To my knowledge (I'm only on FB) I've only been blocked once, temporarily. A friend of my sister had a disagreement with her and blocked her and me (I live in another country and have only met the person a few times). I didn't even notice til my sister asked me if I could see this other persons posts (who posts at least once a day). I was unblocked a couple days later.
I have blocked one person who had a breakdown and after supporting her for years became quite frightening.
But weeks can go by between my own posts. Only a few 'friends' are quite active and my settings are private.

Spirallingdownwards · 07/06/2024 07:08

cmforfun · 06/06/2024 19:07

Lighthearted.... I know this sounds pathetic but how annoying is this. Please say it's not just me?
I'll add it doesn't happen regularly!

was this sent from your iphon

Spirallingdownwards · 07/06/2024 07:10

cmforfun · 06/06/2024 19:28

Ah just in laws, we've lent money a few times and said no this time. Saw a status about cost of living and having to feed their kids beans on toast all week, while family members book holidays. We actually offered to have kids here for tea if it would help, no response. I went on for a nose earlier and we've both been blocked by husband and wife.

Totally petty of them and of me for caring but still irritating!

In that case be thankful. Hopefully they have blocked all forms of communication and won't be asking again.

cmforfun · 07/06/2024 07:48

Butchyrestingface · 07/06/2024 07:04

@cmforfun In your case, I'd be thrilled they'd blocked you.

Do you still have to see them at family events?

Is imagine there'll be a family funeral in the coming months but other than that no I think we're beyond that.

OP posts:
Butchyrestingface · 07/06/2024 07:53

cmforfun · 07/06/2024 07:48

Is imagine there'll be a family funeral in the coming months but other than that no I think we're beyond that.

Well, you're sorted then, aren't you?

Case closed. Job done.

BogRollBOGOF · 07/06/2024 08:00

There's only been one person who I've noticed where I think I've been blocked. It was in the early days of SM and I put in a friend request for my best friend from school as was normal and then she "disappeared". She was a troubled person, and the ending of school wasn't an easy conclusion to our friendship. There was a house move that was part of contact ending early into uni years.

Most likely she didn't want that chapter of her life stirred up; hopefully not too personal because I continued to care that she was OK. Her twin took a bit longer to drop contact with his friends, but fizzled off the radar too.

I often hide people in election season. 30 day snooze is handy for simplistic political bores.

ehb102 · 07/06/2024 08:28

I admin a Facebook group and if members block me they show up under"unavailable" in our members list. So they get removed. That is how I found one school year mum blocked me. I thought it was odd, she didn't owe me friendship but I had included her SEN kids in things that they wouldn't have had access to otherwise. It matters not to me.

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