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I understand your point but not all people has the same thinking and attitudes like what you have. Good to know that yo're not like them; honestly, I find those type of people as uneducated. Sorry for the word, I know that they are your friends but with what you've just said, there's no point of letting the whole world knows if you hate a certain person or not. How I wish those gossipers will just confront their enemies in private not in public. Who wants to see two people or more quarrelling at each other? Even me, I hate seeing people back stabbing someone but there's nothing I can do but become apathetic with the situation so I can enjoy the benefits of facebook :D Quarrelling in facebook has become a "norm" to some people, that is why, I am no longer affected by it, as long as they won't stabbed me at by back LOL. If you don't want to delete them, that's fine; I understand that you're just keeping your connection with these people. If you don't want to open your facebook because, that's your decision as well. We have our own ways of getting rid of things that are not helping us. Happy lotting :)

I see no point in deleting them as they are really my friends and not just online friends. The only way i won't be affected is if i don't open my facebook and that's totally my right as they are practicing their right of freedom of expression. Liberality doesn't mean though that you have to be rude. I am not merely referring to gossips but i am more specifically referring to backstabbing one another in public. Which is not even a good behavior online or offline. And why would you choose to make it known to the whole world how much you hate each other by writing cruel worlds to each other on your facebook wall? Why don't you just call each other and settle your differences there. In that case people reading it won't judge you and won't see how bad your attitude is.

You're right! I couldn't delete my facebook account because my relatives from other countries update me with their pics and everything else in their lives. That'd the reason I'm thankful for facebook because it makes the world smaller for us somehow.

Yes i agree with you. I think someone should make a social networking site etiquette or proper decorum but then we would be curtailing the right to self-expression and it would be subjected to a lot of criticisms by those who like to have verbal fights over the internet. So sad.