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If someone is friends with you and one of your exes on social media, do you remove them from your social media?
I went out with a group of friends a few nights ago. In the case of one of them, I was friends with his ex on social media. I didn't think it was much of an issue anymore, as his ex is now married to someone else. His ex and I are in the same field and have been friendly for a few years now. When she saw a photo online of our night out that included him, she removed me from all of her social media. I asked her if I did something to offend her. She said that she thinks I'm great, but that she doesn't want to see him in her feed so she removed me.
Is this how most people operate? I thought it was extreme, but obviously it's her call.
IMHO childish, desperately dramatic, and petty. Friends of someone's ex are autonomous individual beings, not tumors generated by the ex. Life can be inconvenient...deal with it. This sort of stuff is why most of social media seems pretty pointless.
No, but I rarely talk to them, if ever. Most of those people too my ex-wife's side, so yeah, I should unfriend them, but I don't really care at this point.
I would really, really have to not want to see his face for that to be my only reason. My ex pop's up occasionally on my (grown) kid's stuff and I just think "ugh" and move on.
You notice when you are removed from somebody's facebook feed? Personally, I wouldn't see it as extreme since nobody got physically hurt.
No, I don't notice when I'm removed from someone's feed. You'd never know if you were unfollowed on fb (I don't think). But unfriending someone? Yeah--your friend count goes down and you can't look at the person's profile (or some cases even message them) anymore.
That said, I didn't mean just facebook, but all social media.
I wouldn't do it for the sake of the principle, but I can see how it happens. Sometimes, seeing an ex, or even thinking about the ex brings up painful memories, and if the liklihood of seeing the ex in your pictures is going to happen...it's easier to let you go.
I'm going to guess this person wasn't a close friend, right?
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