I have not been on facebook for long but have de-friended (an actual cyber-FRIEND, I emailed every day) when I found out they were snooping in my personal life behind my back.

You? And tell us why...

yeah. a bunch of people recently. I didn't want to look at photos of them wasting their lives to booze and drugs.

I've also de-friended ex-boyfriends that I was trying to get over because I didn't want a daily update of what they were doing etc. 

OMG that is crazy stalker-like.  I did de-friend someone that I added as a mistake then instantly took off.  I didn't know them though so I don't think it actually counts.

I've not de-friended anyone...yet, not seen the need, but I have ignored a couple of friend requests from people for which there just didn't seem to be a legitimate connection.

Two people because they never wrote me back when I wrote on their wall. And another because I realized I just didn't know them!

But the thing is, you can't take Facebook too seriously because these are your "cyber" friends, not always friends you hang out with.

And I actually was the one that got de-friended once, but I know why, Lol!

I de-friended that girl I spoke about on the friendship post earlier today. Just got sick of the stuff.

Not so far, but I have hidden people's updates when they harp on one note all the time.  And I just ignored a friend request from the mean girl who used to bully me all the time in the 4th grade.

Like Becca, I have taken people off my newsfeed so I don't see their posts.  I also tend to hide all of the game updates for vast majority of the games. 

I was unfriended by a childhood friend who didn't like that I recommended that a client sedate their dog prior to grooming.  He felt that because he had rehabilitated his abused pit bull I should be able to handle any dog in my shop without resorting to drugs. 

a couple, a girl I thought was someone else (though it turned out we did actually go to elementary school together, but never were friends)

and the other, a VERRRRYYY conservative person, constantly denouncing gays and always voting against gay rights and marriage on polls. Constantly harping on 'the liberals in the whitehouse'  I just couldn't tolerate that much hate.

Not on facebook, but another social networking site - the guy kept pestering me for my real life name and to post real life pictures.  Well, Elsa, you knowing Scorpios as you do, already know that that wasn't going to happen any time soon - not by demands and certainly not on his timetable. 

Get real -- Dude, I'm on here w/a pseudonym & unrevealing avatar, you think I'm just going to give you my name because YOU demand it?  Ehhh, NOOOOOO!  Nobody gets in to see the wizard that easy. 

one day i deleted one, and then another and then another...til all of a sudden i had deleted all 215 of them and *poof* i deleted myself, too. bye bye facebook, maybe next life!

love, mercury opposed uranus 

A few

One example was the stalky woman I wrote about on here...

And I defriended a woman who was co-worker years ago. We weren't really friends....and she would leave these long long long odd responses to my updates. I feel like I can't explain it but it was like my facebook page was becoming her page. Sometimes I would get 5/6 messages from her at a time. Wouldn't mind if it was a real friend chatting or being silly with me but this was something else entirely

I want my facebook friends to be real friends or cyber folk who I actually LIKE.

How do you hide game updates??

You hover your cursor over the post and you'll see the word "Hide" come up in the upper right corner of that post.  Click that word and you will be given the option to hide the person or hide that particular application. 

And I also ignore friend requests. A woman who I haven't been friends with in 3 years? 4? wanted to friend me the other day. Not sure why. Doesn't she remember we're not friends?
I have no time for fakery.

Even on something like facebook, I need to be free and myself. Also, she is very religious in a fundamentalist kinda way and, well....I think if I got her daily updates I'd probably puke. Nothing against religion.... just please no fundamentalists of any kind, religious, political, or otherwise

Maybe she's trying to reach out. Well, maybe when saturn gets to libra...

"maybe when saturn gets to libra"

ha ha ha~ you are much more generous than me, my friend! 

Well, kash, I was writing that comment, feeling all annoyed at the gal, and then I thought: hey, she's just reaching out and is clueless as to why I left the friendship. I disappear. At least, that's what I always did.
Let me say this: if I have to jump thru these disaster movie hoops of saturn in virgo squashing my moon pluto, it better CHANGE ME.

well to play devil's advocate: one human can't possibly explain everything to everyone else. so says me, who attempted to explain very recently to a SWF that "i like my privacy, i rejuvenate by being alone, the more space you give me the more i stick around" yada yada yada

"oh yes, I am the same" she said while phoning me and emailing me multiple times a day...i'm sure she was just reaching out to me too, with zero regard for anything i was saying...sorry but your comment just reminded me of a very recent turn of events..! 

I was formulating my response and then decided to hit refresh...  and NOW I know who one of the few people who defriended me is... Kashmiri!  uh, I think.  my memory is so bad.  

when my man and I broke up for a while I defriended him cos I didn't want to see what he was doing.  then I posted an invitation to defriend me if someone felt so inclined.  I figured his two friends that were my friends might not want to see me bitch about whatever I might in the aftermath.  they stayed my friends and my numbers dropped that day!  :p

LOL

i figured i couldn't only de-friend one person and so ended up with zero friends the day i felt the urge to de-friend one...why must i be so extreme????

Nope, never!

Kash,I don't mind devil's advocate as long as you wear some red horns with that. Or maybe advocates don't wear the horns? Never mind. The stress has me silly--

nope.  couple of people I haven't accepted as friends.  I cannot for the life of me place where I might or should or did know them.  I've had one friend ignore a request.  I understand why but it's still saddening.  One person de-friended me and it was a relief.  She was badmouthing me  behind my back for setting a boundary.  It actually was a relief she defriended me and unfollowed me etc. on twitter.

Mostly, the friends on FB are fun and enlightening and I get to hear about eye surgery and new pets and good life update stuff.

oh for sure. if i realize someone has ulterior motives for friending me in the first place or if it's someone i could care less about, why keep em on? i also have a tendency to delete my social networking sites after having them for 6 months or so and then on a whim of feeling 'disconnected' i make a new one again. *smh*, i really should just make a choice and stick with it but notttt gonna happen!

I ignore all requests - sorry. I just don;t have time AND clicking hurts my wrist!

I defriended my old college roommate because we had a bad falling out and I am the queen of passive-aggressive internet behavior. Other than that though, it's mostly "how the hell do I even know you?" kind of people.

satori i just realized i am unsure if i read your comment correctly. somehow i feel i laughed inappropriately? and i think, moonpluto that i didn't explain myself clearly. 

uranus' last hurrah through my 3rd house..the cusp of my 4th house is 26 degrees pisces. i woke up and realized that i'm confusing/confused with my communication. 

I have one friend that I have his stuff hidden, everything he posts is negative political stuff.  I don't want to see that every day I want to know what is going on in their life, what are they doing.  A lot of my extended family on my dad's side are religious, not to offend anyone here that is, but I been there done that and right now not into that but whatever if that floats your boat go for it.  Needless to say my beliefs are not um... understood or tolerated by extremely religious folks like the family. I posted a link on FB to Elsa's forcast for today and my uncle posted "huh?" lol.  I didn't respond cause I don't care what he thinks this is who I am and I am not going to hide out for them, no way!!!

Life's too short to be offended if someone de-friends you. ROTFLMAO!

Thus far I have successfully avoided Facebook. I don't need to be found.

Seriously, Facebook gives me the hives. 

I recently unfriended someone that I've had a really difficult friendship with for the past two years.

Our friendship had boundary problems the whole time, in other words, I share everything and he shares it with everyone. It was complicated, passive-aggression came from me all the time, along with not so subtle "I can't trust you, you're a terrible friend" conversations. The whole time he had the "I introduced you to your husband, and put up with your shit so you can be a better person..." line.

It took too long, but I finally said "screw you, you're not welcome in my life anymore, and I don't want you watching."

Yeah I did dump a "friend" on Facebook. She dumped me when she got a man in her life and I figured if she didn't care enough about me to keep in touch, I didn't need to keep in touch with her life via Facebook.

Even Facebook is changing the term from 'friends' to 'connections'. Some of these connections are inevitably short-term or superficial: I've added girls on a friend's hen night so they could all see the photos, or people I met while living abroad for a couple of months, or colleagues from previous workplaces - not all of these will naturally grow into real frendships and it's fine to delete them if they don't comment on your page or send you messages - the yprobably won't notice.

Sometimes I get requests from people I don't really feel like I know well or want to know well. I usually accept to be polite (block any parts of the page I don't want them to see) and them delete a few months later once they've had time to fulfil their curiosity!

i have. somebody friended me and i wasn't sure from where, but i'm like, ok. you know, my FB is public. so whatever. but he started a chat one day and started asking questions about my hair. it is still pink? yeah. i said i'm getting ready to color my bangs. (i know it's stupid, but this is what he was asking about.) he says, "hmmmm. i don't know about that" as if it's up to him.

i got creeped out 'cause it felt stalkerish and fuck anybody who wants to tell me what to do anyway.

also got friended from somebody who was a friend of a friend. i said ok, but it looked like he was just growing his list to post updates about his web site (which i wasn't interested in anyway) and had no interest in me. i unfriended him.

and when my old HS friend's ex requested me, I said NO. 'cause i only put up with his weasel-like ass because he was my friend's husband. he was a jerk to her and i have no use for him now.

for mildly annoying people, i hide their updates sometimes and always hide most all of the games/quizzes shit. i probably have a hundred whatever game of the day requests and i just ignore all those.

my stepson unfriended me on facebook when he got mad about something (never did figure out exactly what). i called it cyber-pouting.

I've been on there for a year now and equally getting bored and more and more uncomfortable of 'showing myself'. If it wasn't for the value it affords my charity stuff I probably would have deleted myself by now. I do like reading other people's updates though. I like Twitter much better. It's jam packed with information without the grandchildren photos.

Kashmiri, you were totally appropriate!  it was funny I was all worried why "someone" (no idea who) de-friended me, and it turns out it was not personal at all!  funny!

I had to defriend my ex after we broke up two years ago. He was FURIOUS and accused me of all sorts of things after that. The thing is, even though I broke up the relationship due to incompatibility, it doesn't mean I didn't love him, right? So it bothered me when I saw all these hoochiemammas getting all gooey-eyed over his tattoing and art skills (He's a tatoo artist and comic book artist)... I didn't need to see that so I had to distance myself from him - for the sake of MY recovery. Of course, the ex did NOT understand that.

I also defriended a coworker whom I CANNOT stand. After I left the company, I didn't feel she was worth having as a friend anyway. 

RE: Kashmiri:

"one day i deleted one, and then another and then another...til all of a sudden i had deleted all 215 of them and *poof* i deleted myself, too. bye bye facebook, maybe next life!

love, mercury opposed uranus"

 HA. I did this, too. Then a month later I brought my stupid profile back from the dead, thinking I could use Facebook strictly for online business networking purposes and leave out the high school etc. shenanagins. Of course it didn't really work that way. I need more discipline.

I deleted a guy recently who had a dog's face for a profile and no other way of identifying himself. It wasn't the dog's face that did it. It was the fact that instead of introducing himself, he sent me some creepy foo-foo gift. "Here's a fuzzy bear for your collection" or some other such nonsense.

There's another lady who gives me itchy trigger finger - some woman from across the world who sends out those stupid FB gifts all the time. She'd better watch out!

Well, my colleague wanted to be my friend on FB, I knew she did not really like me, but instead of causing trouble at work I decided to be friends w. her. Anyway she had issues and became more and more annoyed with everyone including me, and  I was also fed up with her drama, and angry behaviour(instead of looking at her self) so I confronted her; did not get a decent respons and some time after that I decided to de-friend her at FB, after that  I knew she told other people about it, and everyone felt soooo sorrrry for her.but at that point I was pissed off, and was very tired of other people´s projections, which is not new to me. .

My chart is generally a bit difficult and tricky, so I deal with many projections.