This Is Why You Were Friended or Unfriended [STUDY] Reasons for "Unfriending" on Facebook. Seven Reasons to Unfriend someone on Facebook. Learning to say “no” can be as powerful and positive as saying “yes.” Letting go isn’t loss. It’s allowing room for new. Relephant Bonus: Online Loneliness: “This Video Will Have You Completely Rethink How You Conduct Yourself Online And In Person (Video)” I give a lot of talks on how to do social media right. I gave one two days ago, as part of the Unreasonable Climax.
In it I emphasized that, really, even when you’re swimming in a digital world, we need to (try to) comport ourselves in a personal, grounded manner.If we’re real online, it’s good for our relationships and business. Relephant Deep Reading: Buddhism vs. Letting go or moving on can be hard to do. But it can be a real message, both to your once-friend and to your own sense of fear or attachment. I unfriend folks with some regularity—not because I dislike them, but rather because I’ve been stuck at FB’s rather arbitrary Friend limit of 5,000 for five years and need to make room for new friends or colleagues. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. Why we’re unfriending one another - The Style Blog. Posted at 12:31 PM ET, 03/13/2012 Mar 13, 2012 04:31 PM EDT TheWashingtonPost According to Pew’s most recent study on social networking sites, most users don’t agree with their friends’ political postings.
As the election approaches, it’s only going to get worse. Here’s why we’re unfriending one another these days: • Because you post too often about political subjects (10 percent of users have blocked or hidden someone for this reason) • Because you posted something you find so disagreeable it was offensive (9 percent) • Because you argued with me about politics (8 percent — but doesn’t it take two to make an argument?) • Because you posted something that would offend my friends (5 percent) • Because I disagree with your political posts (4 percent) Unfriending has become so rampant that the word was 2009’s word of the year in the Oxford Dictionary.