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It has happened to me but it was not something I took offense about. One was my son in law but he just deleted his account because he thouht it was a waste of time and didn't enjoy it. One was by a young man who when he was in hs asked to be freinds but I thought it was more like to add numbers to his friends list then wanting to be freinds which I didn't care. Now that he is out of school I think he was weeding out his freinds list. Again it is no big deal.
I really wish I could cut my friends list and just keep it family. Maybe he/she was just cutting down their list. I don't delete I just put them on my hide list.
I would be deeply unhappy and hurt. I don't give any of them a reason to unfriend me but last year an old high school classmate did for some reason. I think maybe because he is a detective and I said something about the police killling people's pet dogs unnecessarily. Will I speak to him at the next reunion? I don't know. We will see how it goes.
I wouldn't take it personally. When was the last time you had contact with that person before friending on Facebook?
I know when I started facebook I got all kinds of requests from old high school friends. Because they saw me through two friends I'm still very close to. Same with college people. I friended them at the time but later thought, "I frankly hadn't thought about these people in years and don't really care about what they eat for dinner, etc. Why have them as friends on facebook?" and I went through and deleted a bunch of people. If I didn't care about seeing them in real life I frankly didn't have the need to be friends with them on social media.
I pretty much keep facebook to family as we live away from most of them, and very close friends.
Facebook ""friends" are not always real life friends. So IMO unfriending each other is bound to happen. When I was on F/B I had 300 friends, only 40 of whom were real friends the other 240 can kick rocks!
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My #3son unfriened me when I told him his political posts where imbarassing the family name. Told him if he didn't stop his inheritance was in jeopardy.
I was un-friended by someone who didn't approve of my marriage equality profile picture. I wasn't hurt, just surprised. I expressed my surprise on my wall.
I was amazed at the number of conservative friends who indicated that, although they did not share my opinion, they were horrified that anyone would un-friend me over it. When it came to allowing me to have my opinion - my biggest opponents were my biggest ally.
If I unfriended someone, it would not be personal. I don't really understand how facebook works, so I might defriend someone just so I don't need a constant stream of news about their cousin's boyfriend's next door neighbor's brother's girlfriend's whoever.......etc.
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