As you begin your usual texting/tweeting, or "FaceBooking" to your "BFF's," you receive a message, quite frankly, unexpected and shocking.
"We are no longer friends. I've deleted you from ..."
Just like that! You no longer play a role in that person's social network. And, without explanation. How do you feel at that moment? Just yesterday you were chatting it up with [ ], everything was cool, nothing seemed out of place.
You do a quick self-examination, re-playing the day the moments leading up to your sudden "deletion".
"Is it really over?"
What to do?
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4 comments:
I think a re-playing of the moments after you made the decision of forgetting about the friend is a big mistake because then at that point you will have the urge to feel guilt which makes you rethink what you did. If you are going to make a decision of whether to keep your friend and leave him forever you should choose one and stick with decision. Never second guess yourselves which can play pivotal role in your life that makes you a different person.
Matt Pasacrita
The first thing to do in a situation like this is to find the reason why. Maybe you did or said something hurtful to your friend. You must re-play previous moments you shared with this person in your head. You could even try talking to him or her. Saying your sorry never hurts. If they still don't want to be your friend after all that then you need to be the better person and just walk away from it. As long as you were nice and weren't hurtful, things should work out.
If somebody I thought was my friend were to suddenly delete me from facebook or twitter I would be pretty upset. Even though I would be upset over this unfortunate deletion, anybody who deletes you from a social networking website as a friend is not worth your time nor your worry. I personally don't care enough about to to get worked up if someone who I thought was my friend deleted. If someone was truly your friend, they wouldn't delete you. If it is someone you care about a lot, confront them in person. Anybody can hide on the internet but if you approach them in real life they can't hide.
If a friend were to ever suddenly delete me off one of their social networks, my initial reaction would be startled and astonished by what they had just done. After the deletion, I would go ahead and find out what the reason as to why he/she did this, what did I do for them to do that to me? In the end, I wouldn't get mad, pissed or completely angry over a silly little thing mainly because of the fact that these social networking sites isn't my life, it doesn't affect me at all. Sure, social networking sites are great to have but if that were to happen to me, it wouldn't get me aggravated at the least bit. But if my friend were to do that, as Mr. Taus said, I would confront him/her in person because then they would have to talk to me, they wouldn't be able to hide like on the internet.
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