A real friend from the real world told me she wanted to clean up her Facebook page and "unfriend" a bunch of people who weren’t really friends. The fewer the friends, the less minutiae she has to wade through to find the information she really cares about. I get it.
She asked me if she should send a message to the people she’s unfriending -- explaining that it was nothing personal, but that she’s trying to spend less time on Facebook -- or if she should just ax them quickly and quietly.
I think she should just delete them. There is no way to tell someone you are unfriending them without basically saying, "Sorry, you didn’t make the cut."
But what do you think? Is it a nice idea to send a message to soon-to-be ex-Facebook friends, telling them she hopes they have a great life but she's not going to monitor it anymore, or should she just clean cyber house without looking back?
Molly Snyder started writing and publishing her work at the age 10, when her community newspaper printed her poem, "The Unicorn.” Since then, she's expanded beyond the subject of mythical creatures and written in many different mediums but, nearest and dearest to her heart, thousands of articles for OnMilwaukee.
Molly is a regular contributor to FOX6 News and numerous radio stations as well as the co-host of "Dandelions: A Podcast For Women.” She's received five Milwaukee Press Club Awards, served as the Pfister Narrator and is the Wisconsin State Fair’s Celebrity Cream Puff Eating Champion of 2019.
