De-friending someone off of Facebook/Myspace

[rcrush]

I have a facebook account but I really dont understand why people take it so seriously. I've heard people say that they are afraid to delete someone on facebook who may be a family member because its mean.

I really dont get it. Its just Facebook isnt it?

[Pithlet]

1. It may be "just facebook"

but unless you maintain regular friendly contact with that family member, it does sort of send a message, don't you think? And if you do maintain regular, friendly contact, then why would you unfriend in the first place? So, not hard to understand why that might create drama. ETA I thought this was just about family members. Just defriending people in general, it depends, of course. It's not that big of a deal to defriend someone you barely know that you haven't even been communicating with. But I can fully understand the person who's reluctant to defriend a family member. I wouldn't do it, unless that family member really pissed me off and it wouldn't be a surprise for them to see I was no longer on their friend list.

[Cant trust em]

2. Depends if they're real friends or just facebook friends.

There are plenty of people that my only connection to them is through that website, so I don't really have any problem severing it if I don't want to hear from that person. I wouldn't defriend someone I was actually friends with. If I couldn't be friends with them online, then why would I want to be friends with them in real life.

[Capn Sunshine]

3. Thanks for reminding me

I'm de-commissioning the old MySpace account right now. One of these "network" time sucks is enough!