To block someone who unfriends you on social media

[PJames84]

This is a bit tongue in cheek but something that does give me great pleasure, even though I do know it’s totally petty and pathetic.

It’s hard to find out who has unfriended you on Facebook but I’ve worked out a way to do it. If you look back on old posts and check who has liked them, if the person is still your friend it offers the prompt to message them but if they’ve unfriended you it prompts you to “add friend”. When I’m bored I go back on all my posts and check and if anyone has unfriended me I go and block them. It’s totally pathetic I know but it makes me feel like I’ve taken back a bit of control of the situation - ok, you don’t want to be my friend but now you can never undo that. Does anyone else do anything a bit petty like this to make themselves feel more in control?

For AIBU
YABU - this is pathetic, don’t waste your time.
YANBU - this is an ok thing to do if it makes you feel better.

It is pathetic. I would never think to think to check who follows/unfollows/likes etc.

You are a grown up aren't you?

No one is this petty.

Your life is clearly very dull!

I'd recommend getting out more with real live people.

FBP, Facebook Purity, tells you who has unfriended you. It also blocks ads.

Are you serious? 😂

Clearly at least one person is! 😂

If they’ve unfriended you it’s a bit pointless isn’t it?

Deeply pathetic. Go touch some grass.

YABU

but only because I can never remember if I unfriended or if they did! I recently started unfriending people as their birthday notifications came up, if I hadn't interacted with them.

I unfriended a load or if I wasn't aligned with what they posted, think back to the George Floyd times or covid, some people went way OTT with what they were posting and their veils slipped, I unfriended a lot then.

So in short, my memory's so bad I can't recall if I did it or them lol

I don't understand why anyone unfriends when you can just unfollow so you don't have to see any of their posts. That's what I do. Unfriending is dramatic and unnecessary.

Who has time in the day for this? Think of what you could achieve in life if you spent that time doing other things, like a training course to get a promotion, or doing your garden, or learning a new craft, or activities with the kids (if you have any) or anything else meaningful and life-affirming.

Wow, that's next level petty 😂
Seriously, I couldn't be arsed.
I regularly have "clear outs" - it's never usually personal, I just think that if you can't be bothered to keep in touch in RL, or don't interact on FB either, especially if you're a casual acquaintance,/old school friend etc not seen for 20 years or more, you can't be that bothered about the friendship anyway. 😁
Sometimes I do notice if someone has unfriended me and think "right, who's that?!' 😡 and go through trying to figure out who but blocking?! Meh it's not that deep bro 😁

I neither know nor care who has unfriended me on Facebook. Blocking someone who isn't interested in you is pointless. They don't care.

I think social media has a level of significance to you that is deeply unhealthy. It is not real friendships op. Do you have a social life and friends in real life?

I couldn’t be bothered to do that in all honesty…

It’s stuff like this that provides overwhelming evidence that I made the right decision not to use Facebook………..

There are apps that can tell you who has unfriended you OP. Much quicker according to my teens lol.

Depending who they are I may consider blocking. If its someone close who you thought was a good friend then I can see that would be hurtful.

I do it. I've just retired and barely tolerated the arseholes I worked with so they've all gone apart from two. Also gone from my phone contacts.
I could never tell them in real life what I think of them so this kinda works.
The pp that says they're not real friends mine are I only have people I actually know.

I unfriended a lot of people when I went into a more senior position at work. I only kept the work people I was friends with outside of work and had been for years. It's not that I don't like them, but I wanted to put boundaries in place. For me personally, to some extent, I need to keep friends and work separate.

There are apps that can tell you who has unfriended you OP.

No, pretty sure there isn't. Lots of apps or chain type thinga claim they can, but they can't.

Yabu, life is too short for this. If they've unfriended you, why would they even notice or care that you've blocked them anyway

I’m presuming the OP is about 13 years old.
If not the case then I feel sorry for them and the low level at which they operate as an adult.
My guess is all is not great on the whole, so wishing best of luck things change for the better soon

My 12 year old, whom I’ve just asked, think this is embarrassingly immature.