Do You Accept Exes As Friends On Facebook?
This whole interenet thing has opened up so many cans of worms that are probably better left unopened. I had an ex from my University days Facebook me today. I knew him a long time ago…I don’t think I’ve seen him in 8 years, and we got along ok when we dated, but what’s the point?
I haven’t thought about this guy in 8 years, why would I want him in my life again? He lives in a different province, probably married to someone he knocked up, so why bother going through Facebook’s obligatory “What are you doing now?” e-mail? I don’t really care.
I’ve Facebook-denied ex’s that I hate before, but I don’t really hate this guy (despite the fact that he cheated on me with most things that had a pulse). I also don’t want to be rude and not accept his request, because I don’t hate him. But why should I care if he thinks I’m rude now?
Tags: facebook
January 31st, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I don’t know. I have one ex as a facebook buddy, and he was the only one that broke my heart. I was also friends with him after, so I guess that makes a difference. My current bf is facebook friends and good friends with a few of his exes. We even went to one of their weddings (strange but true).
Guess it depends on the person really.
January 31st, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Oh sure, friending exes is a GREAT idea. NOT.
First, there are the exes you cared about and still have weird dreams about even though you are really over them, really. Yeah, so that’s not awkward seeing them buying a perfect new house with a stupid fat cow who is so not better than you but somehow can get to the cohabitation stage that you couldn’t achieve after four years. I’m not bitter.
Then there’s the ex that you cheated on and treated like crap because you were twenty and that’s how you roll’d. Now you see that he actually had potential and has matured, traveled the world, and is a sweet and devoted dad to his adorable kid.
Oh, and the exes from high school that still live in the same back-asswards farm town and feel they have to tell how “hawt” you are despite proclaiming that they are married in their profile.
With friends like these, who needs stalkers?
February 1st, 2009 at 3:43 pm
I only add people i actually communicate with in one way or another.
I often dont accept people as friends who you could say we were friends maybe a year ago or so, but not any more.
One time an ex added me as a friend, I accepted her for whatever reason. We never wrote on each others walls or anything, about a month later a went to stalk her profile and found that she deleted me as a friend, so i dunno what she was expecting, maybe she was expected to get our friendship back or something but realized it wasnt going t happen
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:01 am
amyt- whoa…you’ve had experience in the FB ex department! I think I have at least one ex in each of those categories on my Facebook. You make me feel like its a bad thing.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:03 am
Roy- It’s weird that she wouldn’t try to communicate with you…weirder that she removed you from her list. I always think its weird when people do that. Makes me thing they are super-sensitive. Like they are so unimportant, that they have to remove people from their lives in the hopes that they will notice and be all upset about it.
February 2nd, 2009 at 10:04 am
Wait a minute. Janice, you went to your boyfriend’s ex’s wedding??? That is weird.