Avoiding People on Facebook (and other social networking sites)

[Shorty]

We've all been in this situation. Someone adds you on Facebook and you stare at the message for five minutes wondering if you actually want this person involved in your life. (I did this when PG was on his spam brigade >:{.)

My ex-roommate who I cannot stand is constantly texting me, harassing me to add him on Facebook. He sent the request with a message of "" and then sent me a text "found you". I'm trying to play the passive I'm-going-to-ignore-you card, but it just keeps getting worse.

At what lengths do you go to in order to avoid co-workers, boyfriend/girlfriend's parents or your 60 year old neighbor on your social networking sites?

[Pheesh]

At the moment I'm only checking facebook for a few minutes at a time to avoid people on chat. So yeah, I can relate.

[demondude]

At the moment I'm only checking facebook for a few minutes at a time to avoid people on chat. So yeah, I can relate.

Why don't you just appear offline?

Edit: Off-topic but lmao a little 10 year old dude I know is playing 'pot wars' on facebook. That's both smurfed up and quite funny. What happened to the age restrictions, though?

[sharkythesharkdogg]

I had the ex-wife friend me about a month ago. I don't hate her, I'm actually completely neutral towards her. The trick is that I want to keep it that way, and interacting with her has shown that she might want to try the "close friends" thing. Ick. I'm great just being an acquaintance.

So I accepted her as a friend, and basically ignore any comments she makes on my posts. I never post anything on her page. Friendly, but removed.

She's only commented twice, and hasn't harassed me otherwise. So far so good. If she starts sending me messages all the time, or otherwise getting weird then bitch gotta go. Easy as that.

[Pheesh]

Eh, it doesn't bother me that much, and luckily they aren't on too frequently.

[Yar]

I get friend requests from random gay men I've never met before. It's... strange. My profile doesn't even list my "Interested In", at least I don't think it does.

My general rule is even if I don't know you, I'll add you, but you have to make some attempt to let me know who you are/why are you bugging me within a few days or I delete you.

[AngelWings8]

I would recommend just "go offline" in the chat so no one can bother you there. I don't like the fb chat function anyway.

If you never see him in person, you could just never friend him (block him if you want to take it that far). Or if you have to friend him, put him in a facebook group that is restricted on seeing most of your posts/photos/information and don't allow them to write on your wall or comment haha.

[Peegee]

I sort of feel bad that Shorty will never add me to fb but I don't intend to ever stop posting insulting things about lazy people. I've stopped like bombing people though but I can't promise that it will never happen again

So tl;dr if you don't want me on fb I'll respect that and stop asking you - until a bit of time has passed and I'm thinking 'hey I don't have shauna or shorty or ...christ what is xandoo's name?' and add you again. Then you can just reject it.

There's this super christian dude at my office who tried to add us to fb. I added hm, but he got fired shortly so I just removed him again. I don't think he noticed. It doesn't matter anyway.

Finally there's a block button.

[Pheesh]

Your tl;dr was longer than the part that you shortened.

[Shorty]

You silly man, you're on my facebook. I'm pretty sure you've been on there for months.

[Pike]

Sometimes I get people who I don't want on my Facebook trying to add me/message me etc. I just ignore them.

Yeah I really have no qualms about doing this. xD

Edit: I also have this paranoia about BEING that person that everyone wants to avoid, so I rarely add people on these things first. I wait for them to add me, or ask if they want to. This is probably why I only have like 70 friends on FB. (Which I'm fine with.)

[Peegee]

You silly man, you're on my facebook. I'm pretty sure you've been on there for months.

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[rubah]

Facebook is great because you can just hide their posts and forget they exist. not a big deal.

but even with the other sites, where you would have to remove someone, I'm more ruthless than I used to be. If I don't care about their lives, why would I care about their opinions of me

with g+, I'm a little more liberal about adding people, because they have that built in acquaintances circle, so I just dip anyone I'm undecided on in there.

[The Man]

I solve this problem by barely ever logging into Facebook. I got g+ today but I'm not really sure I care enough to do much with it yet.

[NorthernChaosGod]

I never really have to go through much trouble in ignoring people. If someone adds me that I don't want to be friends with, declined. I've declined a lot of my family.