The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With

Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by carlmr on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:11AM (#20693583)

I have an iterative unfriending algorithm, because doing big clean ups is a mental task. Whenever Facebook notifies me that somebody has a birthday, if I don't feel like telling them happy birthday, I'll unfriend them instead.

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Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by saltysnoot on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @04:56PM (#20699858)

So the key to remaining your Facebook friend is to not publish your birthday on Facebook!

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Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by carlmr on Thursday August 15, 2019 @03:01AM (#20703178)

That's true. Also no annoying vacation diaries. If they don't get filtered I might unfriend you for those, too.

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Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by treebeard901 on Thursday August 15, 2019 @04:53AM (#20703646)

A variation on this is to disable your account the day before your birthday, then re-enable it a day after. Then see who manages to still tell you happy birthday without the reminder from Facebook.

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Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by sushid on Friday August 16, 2019 @06:14PM (#20720225)

So.. like 5 friends?

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Re:The “Friend” You Only Spent 5 Minutes With by farisjarrah on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @02:21PM (#20698411)

Brutal, I love it.

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