Determining who to remove from my Facebook friends list
In a similar nature as my previous post regarding cleaning up my list of feeds, I’ve begun to clean up my Facebook friends list.
How do I determine if I should remove someone from my Facebook profile? Well, Facebook nicely reminds me whenever a friend’s birthday is coming up within the next few days. If I would find it awkward if I posted a simple ‘Happy birthday’ message onto a friend’s Facebook profile ‘wall’, then they probably shouldn’t be connected to me on Facebook.
I’ve also previously mentioned that it’s always a good idea to specify your relationship with your Facebook friends, so that in the future you remember that you met Bob from that short-lived job that you worked at a few months back, or Jane at your friend’s birthday bash last week.
I’ve talked to a few people, and among my peers, I’d say that Facebook and LinkedIn are the most popular social networks, in that order. Some people simply go for numbers and try to get as many friends on Facebook and as many contacts on LinkedIn as humanly possible, but personally, I aim to only add people on Facebook if I’ve conversed with them at least once. This is a cardinal rule that many people don’t bother with - I’ve personally received dozens of Facebook friend invitations from people whom I’ve never heard of but are in some way connected to me! For LinkedIn, I only add people on it if I’ve had some sort of interaction with them, since it’s always nice to expand my professional network.
How do YOU weed out your Facebook friends list, or your friends list on any social network in general?
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I don’t weed. You never know when you might want to make contact again. Unless I am pretty permanently mad at you - then you’re outta there.
Christina, I’ve got way too many random people in my account to justify keeping many of them there. A year from now, I don’t want to look at my list and go ‘wtf - who the heck is THAT guy?!’ I’d rather look at my list, and go ‘yeah, I remember the good times I had with that friend!’
Personally, I don’t see the benefit of reducing the amount of friends I have on Facebook. I don’t use facebook for communication, so I don’t see the point of keeping my friends list low. I keep the information contained in my profile to a minimum, so that it will not come back to haunt me later.
I did do a major purge of my MSN list a while back though, which has removed some distractions from my desktop.
Paul, an MSN purge is similar to my Facebook purge. I purge both.
Well KG I dunno what the wheels ya talkin about on this situation, but ur exactly right on cleaning up your friend quantity. Hey if they don’t know u or write u, why bother them????
Hi, Is there a way I can remove myself from a network? I am connected to 2 networks. one is for work, the other is the city I live in. Thanks