Is it okay to delete "friends" in Facebook?

Purge, baby, PURGE! Since these people are more like "gaming acquaintances" rather than real friends, purge them. Unless you both have created some sort of rapport and actually talk like you would to your friends in school or at home, I doubt they would be offended. To be sure, you've been purged from someone's list and didn't even know it. I am sure I have from people's lists of "gaming acquaintances" (for lack of a better way of putting this relationship). I've purged my friends lists. Personally, when I end up with friends from applications, I'll put them on a certain list to remind me where I met them. Unless we cross over to another application, then I'll delete them when I'm tired of the app. I realize this must sound callous to some folks, but really. If I'm to be honest with everyone, I don't really talk to MOST of them. They are there to play a game, as am/was I. Also, I've run across folks I deleted in other apps and re-added them. They've done the same to me. It's really not a big deal. Good luck with your purging decisions.

Hi aixshaonline, I don't imagine that those people would mind if you removed them. From what I came to understand by prowling the Treasure mania forums is that those people understand you just added them for the application. I have recently added a fair few people for those applications, and except for having them on my team and occasionally giving them items if I have what they need, I don't have anything else to do with them. Personally I would like to, but I think there is a line between us that prevents that sort of contact unless we randomly just warm to each other via the gift exchanges. On that note I wouldn't be offended if someone deleted me. I mean I have had the number of people in my Treasure Mania team go down twice, and I guess that is because they deleted me, but honestly I don't have a clue since I don't keep track of the number of friends I have. I reckon the others will be the same so don't worry about it. If you don't want to know someone anymore then it is your right to remove them from your life. If you want to make sure they can't try adding you again you can always block them to give you that extra piece of mind! All the best and good luck with what sounds like it shall be a massive culling , Dranz

Of course it is OK to delete friends from Facebook. I joined an application about a year ago that encouraged me to make friends to increase the size of my "gang". Before I knew it the vast majority of people on my friends list were strangers, so I deleted them all. I still use applications that ask for you to build a large number of friends but I just play them using the friends I have, who are people I actually know.

I think it's okay to delete friends.. When I was new in facebook, I was so eager to add friends that I add everyone who requested, and I add people who i barely knew. A couple of months ago, I did a friends purging.. I deleted some people who I don't really know. they wouldn't know that i deleted them, so it's really okay. Plus security and privacy is a big issue nowadays, so I try to keep my friends list to the minimum.

There's nothing wrong if you delete friends in facebook, even i never do that. Because i filter my friend to see at my wall. If someone request to be friend, i always look at mutual friend. If no one, i rejected. I think my account is my privacy.. so i can allow or reject someone to be my friend. So.. deleted your friend from your list if they disturb you

Well, me too like playing with facebook apps, especially mafia wars. Before i add a friend, which my only purpose for adding them is to play games. Usually i make a notice that i will delete him / her once i add them in my family member mafia wars. But after a while, i got tired of deleting people because there is a lot. I have more then 1000 friendlist now. Althought it is ok to delete them, but it will take too much effort. My Solution is to create another id, this time you just add friend that you want to connect only, this is more easy solution then deleting too much people at a time.

I am a facebook user too and yes same thing I added people just for the apps. But once they were part of my whatever I deleted them. You can do that and they stay in the app. There is no reason those people should see any of your information!

I think there's nothing wrong if you delete friends in facebook, I doubt those people would mind and would even notice with all the influx of friends requests everyday. I don't add everyone, most especially those I don't really know in real, I don't think anyone would know either that they've been deleted unless they're your real friends and they try to send you a message or two, but otherwise, there's no problem, I guess.

Sometimes, they are spammers, or others who will sell your profile. When I am on a site and worry about the karma of deleting people off of such lists, I will write them a small note, asking where I know them from and so on. If they reply back, I decide from there, if time goes by and there is nothihng, then perhaps my "friendship" might not of meant much.

Well, you can do any single thing you want with your own account. =) Though, those whom you delete will never notice, as there is no notification for deleting friends, until they discover the deletion themselves. I really suggest you to be very careful when adding friend into your friendlist. When it comes to privacy, you must admit that you should do nearly everything to keep it safe and never let it leak. =) When I had one account, I used to deny a lot of invitations. Unlike here, where we can share thoughts all together, and not privacy. =)

I delete people from time to time who aren't active. If they notice I generally get a note asking why I took them off, or sometimes I just get another add notice. Most of my close friends know I clean the lists from time to time. Those who don't ever come back are of no loss. Namaste-Anora

hello aixshaonline. i'll suggest you to create a grouping or list for to all your friends. Just like me, i sort them first before i delete them. That would be the first step to delete your friends so that you wouldn't be confused. But the second part is so tiring. you'll have to browse them and re-sort them. That is all for now. good day :D

i don't think that the deleting some inactive and unknown facebook member from your friends list, you make some bad.i think its good, if you have to delete some stranger, harmful and fake people from the list. i also was tried some day with lot of face book friend. all are they adding me and i did accept. but after that i have been see some of my good friend are crazy on me and they starting misunderstood me. all they asked , why i got so many friends ? then i deleted all unnecessary and usefulness friend. now i feel better, also my good friend are cool now to me.

Since facebook is a social networking, you may also be a victim of identity theft, so it would be better that you be wary in adding friends. Just my two cents.

It is depend on you, my friend. But for me I can't do it because it is unfair to our online friend, if doing that without any reason or justified conviction on behalf of the person we want to delete. Have a nice day!

Hi aixshaonline I think you better delete them immediately. Since you don't know them very close, better not to maintain too close relationship with them. Even my friend deleted his ex-close friend and nothing happened. Since at first your intention add them as friend because of your app/game, so when you're not really active in game anymore, better to delete them. You know, your photo are exposed to all of your friend and it's not good, there's possibility they use it for their own purpose or spread them without your agreement. Who knows? There're many kind of people in this world. So, it's a big "Okay" They can't do anything once you deleted them and you can always add friends for game anytime!

Yes, I think so. You can delete other "friends" if you want, that is, if they really bother you under certain circumstances. It is your privacy anyway. Others wouldn't even mind that you deleted them, I think. Haha. Or you can make another account if you want. You can add up only those people whom you know by then.

I delete or decline friends all the time! When I first signed up, I'd accept anyone who friended me (provided I actually knew them in "real" life) because I didn't want to hurt anyone's feelings. After a while, I had a lot of friends, but I realized some people I didn't actually like or hadn't talked to in years, and I didn't want them knowing all about me. One girl from elementary school friended me, and I hadn't talked to her in about 15 years! So, I started deleting anyone that I didn't talk to on a semi-regular basis, and I haven't had any regrets. Now that FB has new privacy measures, though, I've started changing my settings, so I've accepted some friends that I don't want to know everything about me (i.e. former bosses/colleagues, neighbors, parents of my friends, etc), and just changing my settings so they can't see pictures or whatever. You can also "go offline" so people don't chat with you, and you can check your feed so you don't have to see certain people's updates (I have a couple friends who update WAY too much lol). Hope this helps!:-)

why not ? definitly you are ''ok''. i'm agree with you and with the reason that have deleted friend from facebook. you was use to adding or accepting many of people may be. but to all, we can't say that all is friend. friends means different than adding or accepting some at face book.

I think it's really up to you since that is your account and that is your network.