Constantly unfriended

[ImJustMadAboutSaffron]

A guy I know through football sent me a Facebook friend request some years ago which I accepted. We were on the same discussion pages. He unfriended me for no reason then sent another request which I accepted and he unfriended me again. Yesterday he sent yet another friend request which I'm not accepting as it's stupid and I don't care about talking with him anyway. I do know him in real life from football.

Absolutely no hint of romance in this, but why do it? It's weird.

I had "a friend" who kept doing this OP. I found out he was in and out of a relationship with a woman who didn't like him having females on his social media.
Every time they split up, he would add all of his female friends back. Then they would get back together, and then he would have to delete them all again. In the end I didn't accept his requests as I can't be bothered with immaturity like that. I was in no way any threat to his relationship, as I'm happily married. But I don't think she liked him having ANY females as friends.

Don't bother accepting this behaviour

I had this once with an old school friend.

Turns out he was in an abusive relationship and the girlfriend was going on his Facebook and deleting women she didn't know.

I just blocked them in the end. Not worth the aggro for someone I barely knew.

@FreyaMaya

I had "a friend" who kept doing this OP. I found out he was in and out of a relationship with a woman who didn't like him having females on his social media. Every time they split up, he would add all of his female friends back. Then they would get back together, and then he would have to delete them all again. In the end I didn't accept his requests as I can't be bothered with immaturity like that. I was in no way any threat to his relationship, as I'm happily married. But I don't think she liked him having ANY females as friends.

Don't bother accepting this behaviour

Never thought of that! You could be on to something there!

@Pumpkinstace

I had this once with an old school friend.

Turns out he was in an abusive relationship and the girlfriend was going on his Facebook and deleting women she didn't know.

I just blocked them in the end. Not worth the aggro for someone I barely knew.

Yes I had the same, abusive partner deleting all female contacts from his phone/SM

The other reason could be MH issues.

I remember a friend telling me that a good friend of hers deleted all friends every time he got depressed. When he recovered he'd request them all again.

I've just deleted the request.

Nah don't delete it, just leave it pending. They can't pester you then.

I had someone do this, an acquaintance more than a friend. I understand she had a drinking problem and would delete people, then when drunk would re-add them just to be nosy. Third time I ignored.

Why bother wondering about why he does it?

People are always doing things that don't make sense to us. We do stuff that doesn't make sense to others, too. 'Why?' is a time waster, unless it's a problem you actually have to solve. You'll never know how another person thinks.

Block him

This also happens when a person's account is hacked

I have had people like this (one being my mother in law) I have always found fb to be like an adult playground where people can friend and unfriend over nothing in a way to still exclude people etc. I block anyone that unfriends me now just so they don't keep popping back and forth like a yoyo. I think the mother in law did that three times and I finally blocked since then I do the same to anyone like that. Last year I ended up closing fb I just don't need it. I kept the messenger to keep in contact with people I want to but no fb itself anymore.