I'm just unabashedly forward about it.
Just about a week or two ago an old aquaintance requested to be my friend of Facebook, so I, without thinking added him.
For those past two weeks every hour on the hour my phone has beeped with a Facebook update by him with some corny JESUS IS AWESOME saying or something letting us know that he found Jesus and now everyone else needs to turn or burn.
I'm happy for the guy and how excited he is over his new found faith, but I just couldn't take it any longer and removed him. I don't feel bad about it.
Not too long ago an ex tried to add me as well. After three request I rejected with a message saying "This profile is for FRIENDS only".
Seriously, it's not hard. I can understand not wanting to hurt people's feelings, but if it's an ex-roommate you can't stand, why do you care?
I like Kung-Fu.
I usually just decline people I don't want involved in my life. But if you're that worried you can actually just add them to a group where they recieve no updates from you, can't see your posts, and you can limit information they can see. They'll just think you're not active on Facebook.
"... and so I close, realizing that perhaps the ending has not yet been written."
My excuse use to be "I only add people in bulk so I have a number of friends equal to a perfect power", and being the nutcase people know me to be, they'll believe me.
Now my excuse is "I dont use facebook anymore, Im on google+" and if they ask me to add them on google+ I put them in the people i secretly hate circle.
Kefka's coming, look intimidating!
Have a nice day!!
Someone's already mentioned the groups feature, but it bears repeating. If you go to the area where you edit your friends, you can arrange them into groups and then decide which groups of friends get privileges. Generally I just put the people I hate but don't want to explain to why I hate them (ie, family members) on the pre-made "Limited Profile" group. This has the added benefit of segregating your chat list in such a way that you can chat with people while avoiding others you may not hate, but definitely never want to speak with in real time.
I just add everyone, as long as I actually know them, and hide their posts if I don't want to see them. I have about 1/4th of my friends list hidden. And you can always lock certain groups out of things. I have groups for family, friends, kids, old people, and Eyeson.
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Situations like this I'm blunt, I'm horribly blunt the person will generally get a text message or a facebook/social networking site message saying something along the lines of go smurf yourself. Like I said horribly blunt, the actual wording of the message is generally speaking something which if I posted, I could be banned for.
I either don't add them, add them then hide them from my news feed, or just flat out ignore them. I can't stand the ones who harass you via FB chat I generally just hit appear offline which is annoying if you're talking to other people at the time!