ChattyCathy wrote:

>> For the record, I don't recall anyone posting here that they had
>> unfriended an particular person.
>
> My apologies. I guess the post I saw must have been made by another Dave
> Smith or an <Cathy lowers her voice to a whisper> imposter...
>
>> Dave Smith wrote:
>
>>> Damsel wrote:
>
>>> Because it was announced, so I checked. I thought I cared, but I
>>> realize now that I don't. Some of the people on the friends list are
>>> folks I only have a passing acquaintance with. It's my actual
>>> friends that I would care about.
>
>>> If anyone else wants to drop extra baggage, now's a good time, while
>>> I'm in, "So what?" mode.
>
>> Well, there you go. No one else knew who was dropped from my Friends
>> list, and no one would have known that you were one of them until you
>> announced it. It was nothing personal, just that every time I checked
>> FB there would be numerous announcements and status updates. Don't
>> feel bad about it. It is not like you were one of the others whose all
>> too frequent updates were about their descent into depression.
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/rec.f...8cdd7621150094


Read it a little more carefully. My initial comment was :

"I don't put anything on there that I would be embarrassed for people to
see, but I have unfriended a number of people who post too much stuff on
it."

I didn't attach any names to it. Then Carol posted:

" On Sun, 07 Jun 2009 19:58:09 -0400, Dave Smith
> wrote:

> >I don't put anything on there that I would be embarrassed for people to
> >see, but I have unfriended a number of people who post too much
stuff on
> >it.



Carol, deleted"

And then she posted:
"I'm not sure I understand why you guys feel the need to announce to
the world that you're getting rid of extra baggage on Facebook. I
truly hadn't noticed that either of you were missing from my friend's
list until you mentioned something. Why go out of your ways to try to
hurt people? "

So, as you can see, I said that no one would have known that it was her
if she had not announced it.

It was not meant to hurt her or anyone else. I referred only to people
who IMO posted too much stuff on FaceBook. I don't need to know that
much about my FB friends. I don't want to go to FB and find hourly
updates by a small number of people just too much information for me and
I would prefer to limit the amount of stuff I have to see there.