I had to "unfriend" one of my best friends from college the other day on Facebook. Her and her friends political views were so radically right that I really couldn't stand to see their post any longer. Plus any time I tried to add my liberal prospective, I got cyberbullied out of the conversation. I found that I was liking my old friend less and less. So I "unfriended" hoping she wouldn't notice. At didn't work, few days later she emailed about it. I told her honestly why I did it and my hopes that our friendship outside this silly online site would stay strong. It did not go well, we haven't spoken since.
I had to "unfriend" one of my best friends from college the other day on Facebook. Her and her friends political views were so radically right that I really couldn't stand to see their post any longer. Plus any time I tried to add my liberal prospective, I got cyberbullied out of the conversation. I found that I was liking my old friend less and less. So I "unfriended" hoping she wouldn't notice. At didn't work, few days later she emailed about it. I told her honestly why I did it and my hopes that our friendship outside this silly online site would stay strong. It did not go well, we haven't spoken since.
Defriending is not easy, but sometimes necessary :)
my link above is to an essay I wrote as a guest blog for a friend on this topic