Should I defriend on Facebook?

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My ex wants us to be 'friends'. We met the other day to give our belongings back but it opened up quite a few wounds about the hurt of our break up.
I do feel quite bitter about his lack of support and I really do feel like he's a fair weather friend who will dump me when I'm down and only be there for the good times.
It would be a bit childish of me to de-friend him on Facebook wouldn't it?
What the feck does all this 'let's be friends' shite mean anyway?
It wasn't like he was being very friendly when he was dumping me for being anxious and stressed with my new job!

Unfriend definitely.

I don't buy into all that let's be friends crap.

Defriend immediately. It's not childish to set your boundaries.

Unfriend

He isn't a force for good in your life, so why pretend ?

The defriend spell is there for a reason, so you might as well use it. Begone ex-wannabe-friends-bloke!

Oh unfriend now. Why would you want to stay friends and have someone have access to your online private life like that! Nothing childish about it.

you can 'unfollow' him, which means none of his posts pop up in your newsfeed so you dont have to see whats going on with him, but without give him the satisfaction of unfriending him. To do this go to his profile page and untick the following box (This also means you can still access his profile if you get nosy in the future ) He will be able to still see all your updates, but if you add him to your acquaintances list you can manage your privacy settings and exclude him from any posts you dont want him to see. Maybe not as easy as unfriending - but means you can keep your head held high and not be constantly bombarded with his status updates

In an ideal world exes would disappear into thin air.

Unfriend.

Not childish, not petty - choosing to not see regular updates about someone who is your ex for a reason.

There should perhaps be an optional Auto Clearout Friends tick box function on Facebook, where people you haven't contacted for a certain amount of time are automatically deleted; like a spring clean, throw out the trash sort of thing.

There must be loads of people with so called "friends" that they wish they'd never friended, but are now awkwardly lumbered with seemingly forever after meeting and adding them during a drunken night out.

BumPotato, I disagree. In an ideal world exes turn into a big gorgeous calorie-free pizza.

PS - where's it written in stone you're forever lumbered?

A long time ago, I made up my mind that I can do FB one of two ways: have a huge number of friends and not be able to keep up with any of them or have a very small number, and get the updates I want/need. I rarely have more than 50 FB friends, and all my FB and otherwise friends understand that I do culls. I will sometimes even un-FBfriend people I'm perfectly happy with IRL, that I'm not necessarily doing it in a fit of pique or because I'm offended by them, etc..

I think people should be less embarrassed by the concept of unfriending, 'sall I'm sayin'.