Do you ever clean up your facebook

March 27, 2011 8:28pm CST
I have around 300 friends on Facebook but have recently deleted a few "friends" for varying reasons depending on the person. Do you ever have a cull of facebook friends?.
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• Philippines
28 Mar 11
i have lots of facebook friends they are about 900 plus and they are still growing in numbers because i always accept any friend request, but only a hundred are my real friends that i personally know, since i am a facebook games lover i need lots of friends to become my neighbors, most of my real friends are not interested in facebook games or some, we have different game interest...but i was also learning from those friends that i dont personally know thru their post or pictures of places they have visited, some are into some kind of business...its fun to have lots of facebook friends..i don't have plan of deleting them.
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28 Mar 11
A few of my facebook friends are the same as you and have friends from the various games on Facebook.
@eurekafemme (5877)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
I do clean up my fb page but not the list of friends. Once they are on my list, I do not delete them unless they are the ones who unfriended me. But, I am sorting them based on how often i interact with them. When there are friends that I do not want to see my posts they go directly to a special list of friends. I just clean up the wall page. Deleting some of the activities that I made especially those that concerns comments or accepting friend's request. I retain those that I like the most.
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28 Mar 11
I have also had a few people who have unfriended me because maybe we don't talk anymore or some have just deleted their account.
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@sublime03 (2339)
• Philippines
31 Mar 11
Yes, I actually deleted a few people on my friends list recently. The reason for this is because I wanted to have a more personal account and the best way to personalize it is by removing people who are not that close to me. I still want to do some more cleaning in terms of friends but will do it another time because I do not want to drastically have friends from 300 down to like how many so I delete a few every 3 weeks just so people wont see I delete people on my list.
31 Mar 11
Thanks for your response.
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
I have recently deleted a handful of friends in FB. I have known them personally and it's like "I don't like them because they remind me of all my anger in the world".
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28 Mar 11
Thanks for the response. I deleted some people due to their racist status updates which I totally disagreed with.
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@remo86 (252)
• Egypt
28 Mar 11
Most thing i'm caring always to check the privacy setting ..because FB team always put new rules or setting. I don't like to add people randomly so i have 170 friends only:D but rarely i delete friends there
28 Mar 11
I think the privacy settings on facebook are good and allow you to screen what you want others to view.
@remo86 (252)
• Egypt
29 Mar 11
yes privacy is goood but they are always changing them
@xien2xien (1382)
• Philippines
28 Mar 11
i usually accepted those friend who i really know most of my friends in facebook are my family, friends, former classmates and officemates, i remember my friendster account before i accepted everybody that invites me to be a friend and i think it got for like 500 friends above and the sad part is i don't know most of them so in my FB account i ensure to only be friends with someone i really knew
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28 Mar 11
Thanks for the response. I usually accept friend requests from people and then down the line might delete them.
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• Canada
28 Mar 11
I don't clean out my friends, but I clean out old "games" posts. If I request six or seven ites in iLike Stuff, I don't want seven posts on my page, so I'll just delete them as they pop up. If I don't publish them I don't get the request out, but if I delete the post, the request still shows up on the "stuff" boards, of my friends, though not in the news feed.
28 Mar 11
I have done the same with facebook games. Some of them are really annoying and I only joined to see what it was like as other friends were playing them.
@cream97 (29087)
• United States
29 Mar 11
Hi. lakerfanster. I only have 115 friends currently on Facebook. Most of these people are friends and family members both. Or people that I may have known, or know of from school. I have deleted a few of my friends, because they were either causing trouble or just simply not being a true friend to me. I see many people with hundreds and thousands of friends on Facebook, and I don't see how they can keep up with all of these friends. My husband told me that he had over 600 friends on Facebook and he deleted about 300 of them. I just could not have that many friends on Facebook, it is just not that important to me.
31 Mar 11
I know what you mean about having loads of facebook friends but I tend to keep up to date with most of the people who are on regularly. Some people however are not on facebook as much as me so I have a look at their profile to check the latest.
@much2say (55606)
• Los Angeles, California
30 Mar 11
I've never had to clean up as I know everyone on my friends list on Facebook. Well, almost everyone. I did add this one guy simply he was one of my friend's international students he was sponsoring - and the guy needed a welcome. So a bunch of us added him. The guy said hi once - and then that was basically the end of it. I kept seeing his status, and I used to comment on some of his stuff, but I never heard another peep from him. So sadly, on his birthday the other day, I deleted him. He probably won't even notice or care, so I don't feel bad. Other than that, I've never deleted anyone else on Facebook before.
31 Mar 11
I knew most of the people who I deleted but I deleted them because they had changed from when we were at School or they had done something I didn't agree with.
@Missmwngi (12915)
• Nairobi, Kenya
13 Oct 15
I never delete them until they have become many now. What i do nowadays i don't accept a friend request unless i know the person or we happen to have many mutual friends