Defriended on Facebook

Have you looked through your friends list recently? I have. A buddy of mine from high school posted a picture to his facebook profile, I looked at it and read a few of the comments. One of the comments was from another friend from my high school days whom I had already befriended on facebook. Wanting to catch up with this friend once more, I clicked their name in the comment to go to their profile. Low and behold, I was no longer their friend. I figured it might have been a facebook glitch, so I logged out of my facebook account, and logged back in, checked my friends list and the person was still not there. I HAD BEEN DEFRIENDED!

I was crushed. Why would someone who was obviously my friend from the past, defriend me on facebook. There were a few possibilities I could surmise:

1. I had offended this facebook friend in some way, with something I had said.
2. I had not spoken with this facebook friend in awhile, so they didn’t see a point in keeping me on their facebook friends list.
3. They decided to have a mass-purging of their facebook friends and I just didn’t make the cut.
4. This facebook friend was never really my friend and only accepted my friend request to not look like a jerk.
5. This facebook friend remembered a time in the past when I had wronged him or her and had decided they didn’t want me as a friend any longer.

The majority of these possibilities are a little far fetched, but possible. Instead of agonizing over the situation I decided to find out why. I sent my facebook friend an email, away from facebook. In the email I told him I was curious why we were no longer friends on facebook. He mentioned that we hadn’t really talked in awhile and he knew that I had his email address and that he had mine. So that if either of us ever wanted to talk again, we could.. we just didn’t have to do it through facebook. I then sent back another email telling him that this sounded odd to me. Although it makes sense, it does no harm to have more friends on facebook. He replied back a day later explaining that he decided to defriend a lot of people on facebook because they were making a lot of facebook game posts and not doing much talking, which is why he was using facebook.

This was surprising to me. I knew it would have been a possibility, but I never thought people would actually defriend me on facebook because I played games. It is easy to block the game posts from displaying if you don’t want to see them, or hide a friend completely if you don’t want to see what they have to say.

I replied to my friend with this information and he replied back asking me how to hide friends on facebook, and how to hide games on facebook.

Hide Facebook Game Posts

If you don’t know how to hide facebook game posts, it’s really quite simple. Just a few clicks and you can hide those pesky posts for good. In fact, the same process can be used for hiding pesky friends. Just follow along.

Firstly, I would like to explain the differences between the facebook feed types. As you may have noticed, you have the option of viewing two different feed types. The Live Feed and the News Feed. The differences between these two are simple, and easy to explain. Facebook’s Live Feed shows you everything posted by any of your friends as soon as it is posted. Facebook’s News Feed requires a post to achieve some measure of popularity (either by being liked a lot, or by being commented on a couple times). This will help with the next step.

To hide facebook game posts you will first need to find one of the offending posts. Here’s an example:

How to Hide Facebook Game Posts - Ex 1

This is a post for the Facebook Game FarmVille. If you want to hide all posts from the FarmVille game from showing up in the future, hover your mouse over any portion of the post to display the hide button in the upper right corner.

How to Hide Facebook Game Posts - Ex 2

Click the Hide button in the upper right hand corner and you will then see two hide buttons and a cancel button.

How to Hide Facebook Game Posts - Ex 3

The first button will say Hide and then the persons name that made the post. Clicking this button will hide all posts made by that person. Clicking the Hide FarmVille button will hide all posts made by the FarmVille game. Clicking Cancel will not apply any action and return to post to its previous state.

To Hide Facebook Game Posts – Summary

Hover your mouse cursor over the offending post and you will see a Hide button appear in the upper right-hand corner of the post. Click that button and you will be presented with three more buttons. Press the center button, it should say Hide and then the name of the game.

To Hide Facebook Friend Posts – Summary

Find a post that was made by the person you would like to hide. Hover your mouse cursor over the post and you will see a Hide button appear in the upper right-hand corner of the post. Click that button and you will be presented with three more buttons. Press the leftmost button, it should say Hide and then the facebook friend’s name.

I hope this will help show everyone how to hide facebook game posts and how to hide facebook friend’s posts.