"Can I say you're my girlfriend on Facebook?"

One of my FB friends has just announced in a status updates that a "cull of his friends is coming". Should I be worried? Should I perhaps, like, report his posting to the nearest police station? He may have joined the Trenchcoat Mafia after all, and do you think I could live with the pang of guilt, like a millstone, if it turns out that he really is the next Michael Ryan, or Derrick Bird, or Raoul Moat? "The triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing", as Edmund Burke reminded us. Advice pls.

have had friends announce this before

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facebook is so fucked of late...nothing is updating properly and it keeps losing huge chunks of statuses/photos

I hate ALL passive-aggressive Facebook updates and try never to write them myself.

Like when people write they are LEAVING Facebook FOREVER as of RIGHT NOW.

You shouldn't try and STOP THEM or anything.

yeah it seems really quite rude and attention seeking. cull away but there's no need to make a song and dance about it.

"top news" is so completely random these days. i can't work out why the bulk of it is on there.

I think if anyone I knew on facebook cared enough to announce a 'cull' they would get the culling first.

How's THAT for passive aggressive!

I would like to thank ILX for counseling me away from making a courtesy culling announcement. Nobody seems to have noticed that they are no longer my friend, or if they noticed, they didn't seem to care. Except for one dude who keeps trying to add me again, but he'll eventually get the hint.

I've done several culls, kept completely quiet about it, and suffered no repercussions. Definitely the way to do it.

I thought you could only send out one friend request to a person?

I don't have enough friends on FB to do a cull. One or two people have left FB for good, I think, and one person quits and rejoins on a regular basis.

Since I added him and then unadded him, it let him re-request me, and I ignored him. So by "keeps trying" I really meant "tried one time."

I've had someone friend request me twice, even though I ignored/cancelled/whatever the first time.

This one guy I barely remember from school kept going off FB, re-opening his account and requesting me again. After the third time I ignored him.

How long does it take for the system to delete your account after you cancel, BTW?

Until the internet breaks. From what I understand, it doesn't delete your account at all and keeps in on constant stand-by for reactivation.

And the guy you're talking about had to rerequest you?

Apparently so - maybe you have re-request everyone when you reactivate.

walk of shame

I add everyone and just put them in a list where they can't see anything I post at all.

sometimes I think the greatest act of 'terrorism' available to humanity would be to bomb the Facebook servers

greatest act of terrorism, greatest gift to humanity

tyler durden watch out

it would of course be an action by definition the opposite of terrorism

if facebook did not exist it would be necessary to create a fan page for it

Apparently so - maybe you have re-request everyone when you reactivate.

Strange--the person I'm talking about always has his friends list intact when he reopens his account.

Can you Like Facebook on Facebook? Bit like putting 'Google' into Google.

xpost - guess he must've actually defriended everyone for some strange reason then. He did the same thing to a few other people as well.

There is a Facebook fan page on Facebook, I'm a member.

I have 75 limbo dancers in my friend request queue and don't add anyone I'm ambivalent about.

so do you keep your enemies closer then

Not on Facebook.

literally limbo dancers? like their pictures are all them going under the stick?

Can you Like Facebook on Facebook? Bit like putting 'Google' into Google.

― rhythm fixated member (chap), Tuesday, September 7, 2010 11:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

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Facebook is like Skynet. It is beyond destroying by this point.

like

^^^profound, multi-layered post

Thanks! I did think it rather fine myself, but I hate to blow my own trumpet.

I get nervous when I see a friend is going to make "roster cuts" on Facebook. makes me wonder if I've done enough to make their friendship team.

Blocking is the way to go. No half measures.

Is it still keeping up with your friends if you systematically ignore everything they do? I don't block people but I find myself constantly clicking that X to hide Farmville/Frontierville/Mob Wars/iLike/Daily Horoscope/Which Irritating Facebook Application Are You?

isn't there an actual hide button for those apps that let you never see them again? or is that what you're talking about?

That "x" button will hide an entire application. That way you only ever have to see Farmville one time, x it and rid yourself of it forever. Until the next annoying application comes about...

I was trying to find ways to hide certain people, but I couldn't, so I just culled them instead

how do you un-hide someone from yr news feed?

Maybe try liking something by them?

b-b-but i don't like anything

ironic

isn't there an actual hide button for those apps that let you never see them again? or is that what you're talking about?

Yes that's what I meant. There seems to be a new annoying thing that needs hiding every other day.