Over the weekend I got in a conversation with someone who started talking about how they regularly remove their Facebook friends. I turned to others to ask if they did the same, and sure enough they admitted to regularly removing friends. Last week I received an email from someone who said they went through and purged hundreds of friends who they no longer talked to. They also said that it was an extremely therapeutic process.
So why did they decide to delete their Facebook friends? Honestly, I couldn’t tell you but I know why I’ve done it, and for me it’s an extremely rare occasion. The removal of friends on Facebook is an extremely personal decision. We each have our own boundaries and know when others have crossed them. For some, not having been in touch with someone for months or years is a sufficient reason for eliminating them from their social graph.
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