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Deleting Facebook friends, cowardly act!

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So I learned tonight that deleting some people on your Facebook can make you a "coward" and have grown men call out tho there friends list to tell you off your cowardness...really..

so heres the odd story..

One of my best friends from highschool, whos friendship after graduation ended on bad terms, became a friend of mine of FB about a year ago. So after 13+ years of no contact I said screw it and accepted a request. Many of the guys I'm still friends with warned me not to accept him casue over the last 13 years they to have ended the friendship with him due to the issues like I had with him. I listened to there stories over the last few years and watched them one by one "disown" him but still said OK to the request thinking "hey, were grown ups now in our 30's. We have kids and lives and hey, its only Facebook"..

Well, the last year of this guy became..

Telling me to go have an orgy with the cast of Breaking Bad when one night I said the TB episode sucked as did the season but thankfully BB was great as always.

Telling me how my parenting was all wrong when I once posted how my 10 year old son got a cell phone to use at home since we have no home phone since now spends 2 hours alone between me and his mother going to work. No matter how I tried to explain this he repeatedly equated it to me being to much a friend and how HE would raise HIS kid etc..
He even went as far as to cross post my comments on his page to incite comments from his friends! who does that!

So tonights incident...
I write a comment how my son was asking me if Santa was real. When I asked my son what the kids at school told him he said "Everyone says his fake..accept the wierd religous kids who still believe in Jesus and The Easter Bunny"

One girl, who I barely knew but went to middle school with and decided to friend me, added her two cents...she was promptly deleted, its not a forum to argue your beliefs nor do I care if you and your kids are faithful servants, so poof, your gone.

Then my arguementive ex-buddy jumps in and does the same telling me of his beliefs and what HIS kid does as well as preaching i need to teach my son tolerance and what not. I say to myself, ok final straw and delete him.
HOLY SH*T! you would have thought I spit in his face!
Ive got grown men now we both knew years back messaging me saying how he is bad mouthing me on his page, asking people to contact me to tell me of my cowardness to debat ehim or respond. These are people I havent spoke to personally in years sending me messages saying..
"Hey man, not my business and we havent spoke for years but XXXXXXX is calling you a coward and asking people to inform you of this"

I dont get this..I delete and add people all the time but this is insane lol. We are grown men in our 30's with families, who acts like this?

Some people take this Facebook sh*t waaaaaay to serious. Now I must hang my head in shame that the hundreds of friends he has know of my cowardness, so many strangers or people we went to school with, who I could give a f*ck about, laughing at me...lol, so pathetic.
 
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jesus and santa is serious business
raising kids is serious business
but no business is as serious as facebook business.
 
A cowardly act? A godsend ability. I've deleted so many right-wing retards it's ridiculous. Always bashing science, Obama, and liberals while proclaiming their love for JEZUS!
 
Just put them on ignore. Deleting them is a waste of time and is actually harder to do than to just ignore all their posts.
 
Did you explain to your kid that jesus was a real person, and believing in his existence isn't mutually exclusive to believing he had a connection to a god?

Hard for me to understand lumping jesus and the easter bunny together, but I guess I'll raise my kids differently.

"Nah man, those religious kids all believe in jesus, abraham lincoln, genghis khan, and all those make believe people"

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You dont like like it delete me or dont respond. Thats what I do. And if you do get deleted dont act the bitch when your a grown man. Say fuck me under your breathe and grow up.

You understand the idea of differing opinions, right? Facebook IS a forum, your status updates become "threads" where not everyone is going to agree with everything you say. Deleting a comment/friend who "added her two cents" is pretty odd.

If your idea of facebook is "agree or fuck off", then I don't think your friends are the immature ones.
 
It's okay for you to make fun of and insult people in your status, but when they call you out on it you delete the comment. Very mature indeed.

I didnt personally attack anyone and its not a forum to debate anything.

You dont like like it delete me or dont respond. Thats what I do. And if you do get deleted dont act the bitch when your a grown man. Say fuck me under your breathe and grow up.
 
Did you explain to your kid that jesus was a real person, and believing in his existence isn't mutually exclusive to believing he had a connection to a god?

Hard for me to understand lumping jesus and the easter bunny together, but I guess I'll raise my kids differently.

"Nah man, those religious kids all believe in jesus, abraham lincoln, genghis khan, and all those make believe people"

Its funny...Im not arguing symantics...my 10 year old son said this to me in a conversation begging me to tell him if Santa was real. I found it oddly funny, shared it, and became bad dad of the year to two nut jobs.
 
I didnt personally attack anyone and its not a forum to debate anything.
You did by calling people who ''believe'' in a person that actually existed weird and equating him to the easter bunny. It's clear why you posted your sons comments. You think religion is weird and used your sons comments to make fun of them without saying the words yourself. I don't even care about religion, but it's clear that your only intention with that comment was to belittle people that do care about it.
You dont like like it delete me or dont respond. Thats what I do. And if you do get deleted dont act the bitch when your a grown man. Say fuck me under your breathe and grow up.
You don't like people being able to call you out in a public space? Better stop talking or posting when other people are around. Someone might say something you don't like. For a 30 year old, you're very imature.
 
I remove people all the time if they question me I'll just ignore them and if they continue I'll just tell them to fuck off. Lifes too short for silly ass drama.
 
1 Don't just delete people, BLOCK them. That way there is no way you'll ever cross paths with them again.
2 Why are people sending you messages? Set your preferences to only receive messages from your friends.
3 Make your profile private.
4 Before you befriend someone ask yourself, "would I feel comfortable with having this person in my home with my family and friends?". If the answer is no, don't add them.

Treat FB as if it were your own home, don't let assholes walk around and give you shit, take control, it's your space and no one should be allowed in unless you want them there.
Your real friends will know who you are and that you're not a coward. They don't need some sad man telling them what you're like.
 
Just wondering, but untill what age do kids believe in Santa overthere? Can you really pull it off to let them believe in the man untill the age of 10?

Here most kids find out younger that our santa version doesn´t exsist, usually when they are around 7 or 8 they start doubting. Maybe our santa is just less convincing or something. But i find 10 quite late.
 
I don't know what you meant by cross-post, but unless he copied and paste your status update and tagged you he likely didn't do that on purpose. When you comment on someone else's status it appears in the scrolling news feed of all your friends, even if the status you're commenting on isn't a friend in common.

But yeah, Facebook drama.
 
I had to convince myself of Santa's existence. I had my doubts as a kid, but if you don't believe in Santa, he doesn't give you gifts! I was 9 when I found the stash of gifts, so that was the end of that. But parents usually tell their kids by age 10, I dunno. They spend so much time lying to us and making up shit, then they pity our ignorance and decide they don't want a stupid 10 year old because that's too old to be believing in make believe. It makes no sense. And I'm talking about the parents.
 
Jesus was a real person? When did that get confirmed?

I've been deleted from people on Facebook before for calling them out on their shitty status updates. No big deal.
 
Did you explain to your kid that jesus was a real person, and believing in his existence isn't mutually exclusive to believing he had a connection to a god?

Hard for me to understand lumping jesus and the easter bunny together, but I guess I'll raise my kids differently.

"Nah man, those religious kids all believe in jesus, abraham lincoln, genghis khan, and all those make believe people"

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You understand the idea of differing opinions, right? Facebook IS a forum, your status updates become "threads" where not everyone is going to agree with everything you say. Deleting a comment/friend who "added her two cents" is pretty odd.

If your idea of facebook is "agree or fuck off", then I don't think your friends are the immature ones.

Not everyone uses it as a "social forum" for discussion. For some, it's basically a shared journal.
 
Well, the last year of this guy became..

I read this sentence so many times before it clicked. "Is this some new phrase? Is he trying to say this guy changed over the course of this last year? Is it a cultural reference I just don't get?"
 
Deleting is really easy, I completed a cull about a week ago. All school friends who I hadn't physically seen since school...gone... feels good man.

Same.

I have friends there that I barely even know, they are there because they were from school, but I say, that I will delete them too.

What is the problem people, I deleted you on FB and umad? Get a grip at RL or clean your aquarium, farm vegetables and what not.
 
If I deleted all the religious nutjobs and tea partiers from my friends list I'd go to a quarter of what I've got now. Sad, but a result of my childhood and schooling.

Still, you did nothing wrong and he sounds like a real wanker who is perpetuating stupidity.
 
Facebook drama is the lamest kind of drama.

I get why phrases like "blog it", "cool story bro", and "livejournal" are frowned upon...but then threads like theses come along. Sigh.
 
I'm glad I don't have a facebook account. Such a waste of time...

No, it's good. People just go overboard like anything else. Facebook isn't just "lolz drama" and hording friends. I can stay in contact with people I don't see often, are in another state, or overseas and I can share pictures with all of them in an instant.
 
I'm about a month out of creating another I've just quit Facebook and I'm trying to live to tell the story - Behind the music--- GAF edition thread so this is a good reminder on why I'm leaving Facebook.
 
It's okay for you to make fun of and insult people in your status, but when they call you out on it you delete the comment. Very mature indeed.

I kinda thought this myself, not as far as you took it but do you delete someone immediately when he/she airs a view different from yours? Food for thought
 
I kinda thought this myself, not as far as you took it but do you delete someone immediately when he/she airs a view different from yours? Food for thought

The girl who commented did so twice. Her second comment was attacking a real lifes friends comment on my son being funny, saying his laughing commended him.

The guy who took it hard posted a good two paragraph response.

I see my phone showing notifications, pop FB open and see 2 comments from this girl and a wall of text. I instantly know shes a gone and start to read his shit, 2/3rds into his response and details on his daughter taking the sacrament etc..

Did my sons comment I found funny warrant me being taught a lesson or insight into someones beliefs? I shared a humorus to me bit of dialog between me and a 10 yr old I'm trying to get to hold onto the idea of Santa.
 
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