Do you feel guilty deleting Facebook 'Friends'?

It may sound like a strange question. But these days with technology on the rise, and the digital age of the internet, gaming, and social networks, it might seem like a big deal for some, to find out you have been deleted from someones "friends" list.  For those of you who have a Facebook of course.

No, it's just Facebook.

Naahhh, I don't consider very many of my fake Internet friends real friends anyway

Try telling that person right to their face that you deleted them, that's awkward. Or in my case, hilarious!

I dont use facebook. When Facebook was getting popular i was using Myspace alot and i sorta hated it, because my mates at the time messaged me on there instead of actually ringing me/texting me which pissed me of. They all moved to Facebook and added me, i accepted made an Account and havent used it since. My friends i actually hang out with are a handful, and i prefer to just ring em or text em. On myspace i found people who i hardly spoke to just added me since they knew my name or what i looked like. i guess i could be missing out on a greatest thing since sliced bread but im perfectly happy with a life without facebook.

I dont use facebook

Fuck no, I always have a good reason if I'm going to remove somebody.

I never delete my friends, but I have been deleted off of someones friends list before. I am sorry that the truth has to hurt so much >_>

I never delete but I filter people I accept.

I delete if I don't talk to them and they're just a friend of a friend etc.  They can refriend me and get to know me, but I have my friends and I get to know people before I'll friend them on facebook.

Why delete them anyway? There's no harm in having a few nobodies on the list.

No. I usually have a good reason for deleting people.

ive only deleted and blocked one person because he kept asking me if we wanted to hang out even though ive never talked to the guy in real life

No.  I've deleted a few.  People who I went to High school with added me as a friend but were never my friends in high school or never spoke to me.  Added them just out of politeness but after a while of me not commenting on their updates and vice versa I deleted them.  I was Sick of seeing updates from people I'm not interested in.

Nope, anyone i care about i have his/her number and/or email and/or address. 

Just kicking off the people who just randomly add you i.e. a friend of a friend of a friend who saw you that one time, is fine for me. I've been doing that recently since I've just finished high school and I don't want to talk to some of these people again.

I deleted facebook... never felt better.

Nah. Most of them are assholes anyway.

I never really maintain my friends lists on anything, let alone facebook. I never really delete people, I just find it easier to hide them from my newsfeed. Out of sight, out of mind.

I deleted facebook... never felt better.

@mrv321 said:

I deleted facebook... never felt better.

Mark Zuckerberg is gonna be pissed.

If you are deleting friends then you are doing it wrong. All of the people I deleted were chosen because I knew they weren't really my friends.

No, because I don't have Facebook.

I very rarely delete people from Facebook, but if I do, they gave me a very good reason to do so.

Nope. I do it for fun! :D

I never accept people I would later want to delete.  

I hardly notice when I've been removed, I don't talk to that many people on there, anyways. *Shrug*

people who complain about dumb things get permabanned from my fb friends list without regret. yes, we all have problems, and no, i don't want to hear yours.

I've been removing friends recently. It used to be at 300, now it's closer to 200. Mostly high school people I added when Facebook was new and all the rage. It feels good to remove the weeds from the garden as it were, and I am left with Facebook friends that are actually friends (or who have really hot pictures on their profile, they'll be my "friends" until they remove me).

no, i don't remove people. i find it weird for people to just add random people. there are some people that have like 1000+ people. it's just kind of like  how do you know all of these people. i don't think you know all of these people.

I don't delete people unless there's a specific reason, like there was a terrible falling out and we just hate each other. There are tons of people I'm friends with that I haven't seen for years but I don't really care.

no, i don't remove people. i find it weird for people to just add random people. there are some people that have like 1000+ people. it's just kind of like  how do you know all of these people. i don't think you know all of these people.

No not really, because generally if I am deleting friends it is with people who I have never really had very strong ties to and contact isn't necessary...

I just reenabled my Facebook after about 10 months to get some contact info; I have very few (if any) real current friends on Facebook. I won't remove people because I'm curious about other people's lives in general, and a lot are part of my past (it's cool to know if someone you went to HS with is married)... but it's kind of a waste of thought to be concerned with what they're up to on a daily basis.  

Honestly, sometimes I do get a bit upset if someone I know well and thought I had a decent relationship with deletes me. But I've also had the opposite happen, where I've deleted people who I thought weren't real friends, and then they'd message me asking why I deleted them. Then I'd feel guilty and re-add.

Facebook gives you a window into your 'friends' true perception of you at times.

No.

I have fair uses for facebook and the only reason I haven't deleted more than half of my facebook friends is because of pure laziness.  The laziness will end soon enough and I will trim the dead weight eventually.

Nope and I've denied my entire family because they can't be trusted with posting priveleges

I don't defriend people. I've never really understood the concept of deleting someone on Facebook. If they prove to be a nuisance and relentlessly torment my news feed with inane subjects I don't particularly find interesting, I'll just hide their posts. I don't personally use Facebook as anything more than a extra way to talk/keep in touch with friends. If someone I know wants to invite me, I'll accept. I feel that removing people is to effectively burn away the last bridge of rekindling old friendships. After all, it's just Facebook. I don't gain or lose anything by keeping them on a friends list I rarely, if ever check. 

Yeah, a little, unless it's someone I really don't know and only added me via a friend without ever talking to me. In general I try to make sure my friends list only contains people who I actually know anyway.

I don't feel bad because I never delete anybody. My friends list is pretty light as it is, so I don't really see a point in deleting someone and taking the risk of offending them.

No, it's just Facebook.

Sometimes, but on the whole, no. I generally delete people I don't like/don't know and who I will never see again.

When you delete someone, it almost always means that you don't like them. Which makes it quite awkward if you meet the person on daily basis. 

Nope, I barely befriend anyone on facebook whom I don't know irl, so if I delete such a person he/she probably deserved it.

@CornontheCobbe said:

Today I was just shaving down my friends list on Facebook. Friends that I may have had when I was attending secondary school, met throughout my life briefly (maybe once or twice) or who have added me after a drunken night out :/Or just plainly that person that always has a depressing or angry status update. Enough can be enough. I felt however a bit guilty as I deleted people off that i work with, and go to college with. I may work with them, but they barely speak to me, and have added me just for shear popularity possibly, or the thrill of having so many 'friends'.Does it bother you when you have been deleted from someones friends list? It kind of got to me to know people I have known for years, since kindergarten have deleted me, and kept some other close friends. Call me crazy, but that can really mess up your thoughts on who you thought were true friends.

Wait, so people from old schools or old times you can delete, but you feel guilty about people you go to school or work with with now?  Hate to break it to you, (and I don't mean this in a snarky way, more laughingly pointing out) but that's not guilty.  That's fear of being caught.  There's a difference.  :)

Me, I wouldn't know about feeling guilty.  I too am afraid of being caught.  Only unlike you, who was able to commit to the remove button, I'm too spineless to actually go through with it.  Now I feel shame.  But hey, that's sort of like guilt, right?

No, because I don't have a Facebook account.

I don't really bother deleting facebook "friends", but I have blocked crazy people and hid them from my newsfeed when I did have a facebook.

i have no need to remove the friends that are on there since I know all of them personally.