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  7 1 I've been through one break up since joining facebook and I didn't do any of the things you mentioned. Of course, it was an amicable split. I might unfriend an ex if he had cheated on me or something. Or I might just change his security clearance so he can't see as much of my page. I would never ask or expect a friend to unfriend my ex, but if one of my friends asked me to do so for them I would. As for the photos, that is a more subjective area. I think it would depend on the photos themselves. e.strange answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  3 2 I just recently went through this experience as well. After my girlfriend moved out, I went ahead and unfriended her and a few of her friends that I had not had a close friendship with. I left the friends that I was close with, but figure that they will slowly unfriend themselves over time. I leave that up to them. The problem I feel about it now, is that my ex and I split on fairly good terms, both understanding we just weren't right for each other. But I think that my unfriending her on facebook may have sent the wrong message, that I did it because I was angry/upset/etc. I don't think she understood that it was more of an issue of not being able to see pictures of her, or read her updates, or just know that she is there. I knew that if she was, I would make the mistake of looking at her page or reading what she is doing, and getting miserable and sad. So looking back on it all, I might suggest just sending a message on facebook explaining to your ex why you need to distance yourself right now, and that maybe in the future you can re-invite each other and be friends again. After the emotional fallout from the breakup. For photos, I haven't decided yet. I will probably take them down in time, but I am not sure. They are a part of my history, but when I do end up dating or getting into another relationship I wouldn't want any confusion to arise about them. So I will probably take them down eventually, or un-tag myself. Basil answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report 2 comments by e.strange and Basil… 0 0 I struggled with whether to unfriend someone I had dated for a while for the reasons you're talking about here - didn't want to see his pictures, status updates, etc., but I eventually decided to hide him from my activity feed and downgrade his security clearance instead. This way I'm not seeing his activity but I don't send the wrong message. And because I restricted his access to my profile, he's probably not seeing this stuff from me either. Your approach seems perfectly reasonable, though. In the end, you have to do what feels right for you. e.strange commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 Yeah, I think your way of dealing with it is very healthy. It is such a tough issue that is so new to our world. After the breakup I asked several of my friends the exact same question as the poster has asked, and I really had to look at what I needed in the situation. I think ultimately I made the best decision for myself, because even being connected through social media can be too much, my mind tends to think about her way to much already, and if I knew we were still connected on facebook every time I logged in a part of me would think about her page, and wonder how she is doing. Like returning to a favorite spot of ours, the memories would always be overpowering. For me, it was better to separate completely, and give my mind the chance to slowly get to the point where I don't think about her every day. A slow method of reclaiming facebook for myself alone. I do wish I had done it more elegantly though, but that is probably because I just didn't want to hurt her more (which is something else I just have to stop worrying about in time). Ah well, moving on. Even being a child of the internet, it is such a strange new world to me when emotions, relationships, and the online world intermix. Basil commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 2 I wouldn't consider doing any of the things you listed unless it was a giant mess. And I don't do giant messes of relationships so I wouldn't do any of those things. I think about it this way: why does it matter what relation they had to you? Your current feelings are all that should matter. ie: You probably wouldn't de-friend your ex-coworkers unless they were assholes. You probably wouldn't delete old photos with them even if they were assholes. So why an ex-boyfriend/girlfriend? But I would totally de-friend my friend's cunt-y ex. (too many hyphens) James answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  2 2 as someone who has been subjected to other people's breakups online, i would like to gently request that you do whatever you can to spare us your angst and your fighting. go ahead and let facebook announce that you "are now single s friends or gripe about your ex in status updates or get pissy when friends prefer to remain neutral. TIA Valkyrie answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 1 I just wrote an article about the proper facebook breakup etiquette, hope it helps. =) http://blog.hudsonhorizons.com/Article/Facebook-Breakup-Etiquette-Surviving-a-Breakup-in-the-FB-World.htm Hudson Horizons answered in Science & Technology about 1 year ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 1 I didn't unfriend my ex when we broke up, but I did have to change my relationship status. I opted for just removing relationship status altogether and then removing the status change update from my feed so that it I wouldn't get a ton of facebook comments about it. He switched his status to "single." If the breakup hadn't been mostly amicable, I would have unfriended him, and if I start feeling sad from seeing his facebook updates, I'd probably hide him from my feed, but not unfriend. We didn't have a ton of photos of us together, but if there had been some that were really couple-y, I would have deleted them. I only friend people who are at least sort of my real friends, so significant others of good friends of mine don't get added unless I know and like them. And if I do, I wouldn't defriend them even if they broke up with the person who introduced us. Kitts answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  9 11 Social networking is cultural cancer. Conscious self-image and triviality in a daily dosage. I think I'm gonna be sick. LMNOP answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report 5 comments by Cato the Younger Younger , Basil, and UnoriginalAndrew… 0 0 AMEN!!!! The fact people waste time on Facebook simply points to a lack of a life worth any meaning! Cato the Younger Younger commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 Triviality may be more of a reflection of the type of friends you have on your network, than the network itself. Bad social networking is never a cause, it is a symptom of vapidity. Basil commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 You are both posting on a social networking site. UnoriginalAndrew commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 Unoriginal Andrew we are not posting to a social networking site: There's no WAY I would socialize with people of your ilk! URUMPH!! Cato the Younger Younger commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 No. I agree that this is all pretty trivial too. But the barfy feeling remains. And fuck that, it's all pretty vapid, or you're delusional. LMNOP commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 2 I'm dealing with this right now!!! I'm considering un-friending my ex because I feel he is stalking me on facebook. He said a few things that were random, and made me wonder at the time, "How would he know that?" It kinda creeped me out. In talking with another friend, I found out he was making some accusations and coming to some unfounded conclusions about me ("I knew she had a thing for him!" kind of things) that are totally untrue. I'm considering asking a few friends of mine, that are totally my friends and in no way "split" friends, to unfriend him. I don't want to feel judged by him and I think the absence of contact and exposure to each other's lives for a while will be healthy for us both (especially him...). I'm truly bummed it has come to this, as I do want a friendship in the future, but right now it's not shaping up well for the immediate future. AS for photos, I'm probably not going to take too many down, but likely untag some. I think a full deletion of things on facebook is a little drastic, but I'm down to do what is appropriate for me. I would love to hear other POVs on this!! K8 answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report 2 comments by TVDinner Redux and kitschnsync… 0 0 Don't ask your friends to "unfriend" him. Let them make their own decisions. You just sound petty, weird, and like you have no sense of boundaries if you ask them. And definitely unfriend the ex. You owe him no explanation for it, either. It sounds like he's in the flailing phase of the breakup, and a polite explanation for why you're unfriending him might sound like an invitation to rehash this, that or the other thing. Just push the button and get it over with. TVDinner Redux commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 I usually pride myself on not taking sides when bullshit like this crops up, but I've been put in a position recently which required me to defriend a friend. It sounds similar to your situation, K8. A friend of mine dumped his girlfriend because she was a flakey substance abuser. I generally like her, and I want to be supportive of her while she is going through this rough patch in her life, so I declined to defriend her when he asked. But soon it became apparent that she was using FB as a way to stalk and harass my friend. She would get access to pictures of him and what he had been up to through me and other people she had friended, and she would post things referencing him on mutual friends' walls. The final straw was when she actually JOINED FORCES with another ex of his and posted pics of this other ex's wedding all over the place as a way to hurt him, calling him out directly in the accompanying text. It was like a bunny-boiling Voltron. So I don't think it is petty or weird to ask people to defriend your ex. Maybe I felt like that in the past, but I have seen first-hand how FB can be used as a stalking/harassment tool by vindictive exes. kitschnsync commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  0 2 i think it is useful remain FB friends with an ex, as this person is still a part of your historical social network. if you make a new friend, connect over FB, and find that this person is also FB friends of your ex, that could be valuable knowledge for you. if you don't want to see updates of your ex or do not want your ex seeing your updates, make the appropriate changes in your profile's privacy. Matt answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report Comment on this answer Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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  1 6 Since Im a player I've had to do alot of breaking up in my time. A man like me can't be held down to one woman for to long or else it gets all smelly and flacid. So I have to find quick and efficiant ways to tell her its off and Im back out on the horizon to pull more tail with my sexy shirts and hot dance moves. The best way to handel a facbook after a break up is not to defriend them, after all thats where I meet most of the women I get on with and you never want to burn bridges. You never know when even a stud like me will hit a dry spell and none of the dance movies and sweet sweatpants will light the fires of love in any of the sexy ladies you meet. Probably should delete old photos dont want any of the new honies to be getting jelouse and if I see my friend had unfriended his ex that to me is like the green light go! to hit up that shit. So no I would not defriend a friends Ex I would friend them and try and get in them sweet smelling underpants. Charmin_Mark_1983 answered in Science & Technology over 2 years ago | Report 2 comments by capicola and Kalakalot… 0 0 http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/the-different-kinds-ofpeople-that-there-are/Content?oid=1206006 People Who Are Just a Down-to-Earth Guy, Who Enjoys the Little Things in Life Like Going for Walks, Lifting Weights, or Just Doing Whatever (LOL), Whose Friends Would Probably Describe Him as Honest, Truthful, Loyal, Affectionate, Compassionate, and Romanceful, and Is Looking for a Woman Who Is That Rare Combination of Stunning on the Outside and Beautiful on the Inside, and Most Importantly Down to Earth, Enjoys the Little Things in Life, Loves Children, Animals, Has a Passion, Laughter. I Especially Like Asians. Can we just skip to the part where you gun down everyone in the Taco Bell? capicola commented over 2 years ago | Report 0 0 This is pitch-perfect satire, thank you! I enjoyed the semi-literate misspellings and mechanical errors, and I will definitely be using the line "get in them sweet-smelling underpants." Kalakalot commented over 2 years ago | Report Enter your comment or ask a new question preview THIS IS A PREVIEW: Click "Post" to submit it or "Edit" to make changes. edit Please wait… This could take a minute if the tubes are clogged.

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