Ask Dr Live Etiquette... facebook friends

[kahuna_burger]

It has come to my attention that about half my facebook "friends" are people I went to high school with, haven't talked to since, and in many cases, didn't talk to much then. I mostly just accepted their friend invitations on the basis that I remembered their names and wasn't sure how much traffic there would be

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[prog]

Consider using the Hide control on FB-friends who have spammy status messages?

Re: Non-answer

[kahuna_burger]

hrm, I have not investigated all the tools for filtering my home page, it is true....

Re: Non-answer

[prog]

If you hover over the space to the right of someones status update on your FB homepage, you see a "hide" control for them.

I have ended up doing this to almost all my high school "friends", because it was nice to ping them and all that, but they're all pretty inane online...

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[geekmom]

Not to mention how incredibly awesome it is to be able to hide all the stupid "How much do you resemble a stick of butter?" quizzes and whatnot.

[guedo79]

I say toss'm. If you don't feel the urge to contact them now then chances are you will not in the future.

Plus facebook does not make a big deal of "unfriending" and no one will really be the wiser unless they good looking.

[guedo79]

I should note, I'm a social idiot so take my advice with a grain of salt.

[geekmom]

Just group them and hide the ones you don't know very well. I think of it more like a yearbook that talks, heh.

[heddicraft]

I've done a mix. I unfriended a few people that I said yes to before I realized the deluge I would get. Facebook doesn't alert people you've unfriended them, so I don't think it's worth it to make a big deal of it. I used the more and less controls (can't remember where the heck they are) to say I wanted more updates from certain people and less from others. And I created a group of people I really want to know about, so I could filter the rest out if it was too hairy.