Why do people block, then unblock?

[MissRobin]

Had a tricky friend situation a few years back that led to a very short lived EA on my part at least. She ghosted me for a year, then got back in touch, then I cut contact, she then blocked me and unblocked many months later. Why do people do that? We are still NC. I feel she is testing the water, wants some attention, looking for validation? She was busy getting into a relationship while texting me non stop. How some people have time for this is beyond me as well. I would really like to hear your views on blocking. What does it achieve?

Why do you even care?

Anyone who did that to be would be a former friend and I would give a rat's arse about then.

To answer your quieten though, some people just love drama. They create it when they don't have it to cope with other issues in their lives.

Sorry about the abundant typos.

Was going to say pretty much this

I don't know how or why you'd know you'd been unblocked? I fell out with a friend some years ago and was aware she blocked me on everything at the time. I've never been back to check if I've been unblocked, why would I?

I would assume that they block because they are cross with you/about something and then unblock because they want to be nosy at your page if it's social media or just see if you have messaged if it's a messaging page they have blocked you on.

This! The drama might be all in your mind.

Maybe she just didn’t want to talk to you for a bit and once her annoyance had subsided she became open to talking again?

Jeez, block and move on. You are not going to ride off into the sunset with this person.

I realised I'd been unblocked on facebook when an old friend started appearing in my facebook memories again. People who are blocked/have blocked you don't show up named in your memories (or they do but their name doesn't link to their profile)

Yes I'd say nosiness is the reason, they probably don't think you'll realise and they want to keep tabs on what you're doing in life

Just block her.

The reason I blocked at some point was because I didn’t want to deal with so much drama and as I tend to forget when friends mess me about I decided no more. So the blocking would prevent me from getting in one of those situations again where I would think “I now remember why I cut contact in the first place”. I am interested in what people in general and tend to place them
in categories to help
me deal with them better. Why do I still care a tad? Don’t know. But I know I would give the same answer to someone in my place.

@QueSyrahSyrah I know because our messages have appeared again in my inbox on one SM platform.

I'm not aware of anyone blocking me, though I've noticed some people have disappeared off my contacts in Facebook over time. I don't know if they blocked me or just went off Facebook. I usually assume it's not personal.

I've only ever blocked two people myself. I am reviewing this, as I have recently had a couple of guys say hi, when I previously hadn't heard from them since January/February on OLD. Was tempted to ask if their recent dates had dumped them, but decided just to not engage.

@TrivialSoul yes, she was actually annoyed about me refusing to do something for her in the name of our “friendship”. I basically put some boundaries up and refused to get used. My SM is public though and do not post stuff about myself. Hence me thinking she was trying to get some attention.

If your friendship meant something to you then you would! You obviously never cared about your friendship in the first place