Reasons to "Defriend" a Person on Facebook

As you spend more and more time on Facebook, old friends pop out of nowhere. Friends of friends start to request you as a friend, and the next thing you know you are just accepting everyone. Pretty soon you have a list that is hard to manage and friends of friends know exactly what you did on Saturday night, and what alcoholic beverage you drank too much of.

The next thing you know you are friends with the world!

For some, that's exactly their goal; network with everyone. But for most, this might not be a good idea. Your privacy is now in jeopardy and all you wanted to do was try out this thing called Facebook because your buddy told you to.

It is time to do some spring cleaning. And it is simple and easy. But who do you cut and who do you keep?

Here are the Top 5 reasons to 'defriend' a person on FaceBook.

1. You have no idea who this person is.
2. You hate this person.
3. You work with this person.
4. You used to be in love with this person.
5. You owe this person money.

I'm sure this can cut down your list quite a bit. This is not the 'end-all' list on 'defriending' someone but it is the top 5! There are many more reasons to 'defriend' a person, but if you want to get a good start, start with these Top 5 reasons!

1. You have no idea who this person is.

Maybe you joined a group and you thought a person in the group would be good to network with or vice versa. Maybe it is a friend of a friend but you have no real relationship with this person. Or maybe someone randomly sought out your name because they were 'searching' and you accepted them figuring it was a friend of a friend. Well, there you go. Get rid of them. They have no social benefit to you if you want to cut them from the loop of friendship if you have no idea why they are on your friend's list anyway.

2. You hate this person.

Question: Why the heck would you keep someone as a friend on Facebook if you hate them? You are keeping yourself open for trouble. This person may say or do something that offends you and the next thing you know it is an all out Facebook war with each pulling related friends to their side to fight with them! Get rid of this person now and don't turn back. You do not need to know what this person is doing on a daily basis anyway. It is a waste of time and energy to log on to Facebook just to throw hate around don't you think?

3. You work with this person.

Unless this person is a good friend you better get rid of him or her. Especially if it is your boss. Your boss does not need to know what you did over the weekend, what you are doing in the middle of the day during work, or what time you went to the bathroom. They don't need to know that you are friends with shady individuals or belong to groups that they may feel inappropriate. And they do not need to see pictures of you in a bathing suit or on the golf course when you called in sick that day. Be a good judge of character at work, and don't let some rumor spread because you were friends with the CFO's secretary.

4. You used to be in love with this person.

Do you want to set yourself up for disaster? Especially if you have a boyfriend or girlfriend already? Well, if you do, then be friends with all your past lovers and/or girlfriends or boyfriends. Sure, your current partner is 'cool'. But how cool are they really? Next thing you know they are friends with their exes and you find that an issue and they say, 'well, you're friends with so-and-so what's wrong with me being friends with so-and-so?" Do you really want that conversation?

5. You owe this person money.

Hello? Are you in there? If you owe someone money, you better just get as far away as possible from them and being friends on Facebook does not offer a good solution to that problem. Imagine the call tomorrow after you post pictures from Hawaii, "Uh... you went to Hawaii? Isn't there a little matter called - you owe me money!?" Okay, this might be a little extreme... or is it? First, don't owe people money. This is bad. But if you do, and you're not paying up, go into hiding. Posting updates on Facebook is not going into hiding - so 'defriend' this person immediately!

There you have it. The Top 5 Reasons to 'defriend' a person on Facebook. Follow these reasons and your list of friends will dwindle down to those that really matter.

Now track down that person who owes you money and request to be a friend on Facebook!