8 Major Reasons For Unfriending Someone On Social Media

If you fall out with a friend, break up with a lover or just don’t want to keep in touch with someone, you usually ensure you don’t meet him or her. Relationships are dramatically different online. On social media unless you are unfriending or blocking that person you will keep getting a glimpse into his or her life. Something you might not want.

These are some questions that people often ask: How do I unfriend someone on Facebook without them knowing? How can I politely block someone? How should I delete friends on Facebook without them knowing? What are the excuses I can give for unfriending someone on Facebook? How can I stop someone seeing my posts on Facebook without blocking them?

# Break ups are a major reason

Not all relationships have a happy ending, sometimes heart breaks happen. Some are mature enough to keep a bond of friendship alive even when that happens, but most want to forget the ex’s very existence. After all, one would not want to “see him” looking happy with another partner.

People often wonder if it’s fine to stay friends on social media after a breakup. But most decide to stay away from their ex on SM to avoid further mental agony.

# Fight with a friend

Best friends fight over trivial issues and then unfollow and block at least till that point in time when the two have not sorted out their differences.

This is common occurrence and many people prefer to stay away from their friend on SM when issues are not resolved. Especially if the fight had broken out from a SM comment.

# Stalkers are a nightmare

Thanks to social media, stalking has become easy. Post-breakup this is most common. Or you never know the person you made friends with just seeing mutual friends, might be asking for your number or demanding a coffee date. Guess that’s when you need to say goodbye.

# Leaving an office

With some ex-colleagues, you stay in touch with over a lifetime and some you just know you will not bump into ever again. So, what do you do? Immediately remove them from the “friend list”.

# Nosy relatives

It is true what they say – we can choose our friends, but we cannot choose our family. In continuation of this thought – not all family members are likeable.

In real life, when get-togethers do happen it is tough to avoid such people, but in the digital world one can – all that one has to do is to get rid of them by unfriending on social media.

# Posts of some are irritating

People post updates and pictures of just about everything nowadays – thousands of pictures showing different angles of the same tree, pictures of what he eats at different times of the day or offending jokes.

Some of these posts can irritate and when that happens one tends to remove him from his life by unfriending.

# Constant tagging

There are those who constantly tag people by the dozen without even seeking their permission. If done too often, this could get a little infuriating. Hence, such people do get unfriended.

Even if you work on the settings to ensure every tag asks for a permission it does get irritating after a point.

# Haven’t been in touch for a long time

There are often those on the friend list who one has not been in touch with either in real life or in the virtual world for a long time.

Some don’t like keeping such people on the list. There is no reason behind this – it is just what they feel is right.