Poll of the Day > Do you remove the ex of your friends from your contact list, social media, etc.?

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I've been in a few situations or heard of where a friend is friends with the friends of the significant other. In some cases upon breaking up the friends of the ex would continue being friend with said friend or completely cut off the friendship. Unfortunate but maybe some folks have that tribal mentality when it comes to friendship.

I never thought much about staying on friendly terms with the ex so long as it wasn't an ugly breakup. It wasn't until a friend asked the rest of us if we're still Facebook friends with his ex that the question came up and he actually was upset we stayed as Facebook friend even though we never interacted with the ex. I myself do not purge my friend list unless someone gets difficult to deal with.

Personally I feel being Facebook friend doesn't mean anything. It's the interaction with said people that matters. I'm probably more of a friend with folks I met in World of Warcraft 13 years ago that I have never met in person than some of my college friends that I haven't seen in several years.

Still maybe said friend expected the rest of us to cut-off the ex completely even though we were never on that much on friendly term with the ex. If anything the rest of us were just indifferent to the ex. We were "friends" in name only.

Do you remove the ex from your contact list, social media friend list, etc.?

Comments are appreciated,

Thank you
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I usually have no reason to. But the exes are usually already close friends. My best friends ex was a guy I met in like 7th grade, maybe earlier. They didn't date until late high school. After they broke up, he didn't hang out with us as much, but I wasn't just gonna drop him. I've known him for years. Same with a few other friends. I know which friends are closer to me and who I'll probably hang out with more. But it doesn't mean I have to cut them off completely. It is a little different if I don't know them as well. But it also doesn't mean I have to cut them off. But it could be different for other people. My friends are pretty chill, so there's that. And I'm usually friends with everybody already, and was kind of the leader of our group and always bringing new people to hang out. Anyway, I feel that you shouldn't have to. But, it's up to you.
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I think I have some of my ex's friends as friends on Facebook still. I don't use Facebook enough to care.

I did get rid of my ex on Facebook though, mostly because she posted ALL THE TIME and I didn't want to keep having her flood my feed.
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What a horrible friend I am. Completely forgot my friend was gonna propose soon when the breakup occurred. I can understand on that ground why said friend was upset that the rest of us stayed as Facebook friend despite being friends in name only with the ex.

I guess one could argue that if we were never really friends with the ex, there is no reason to keep the ex on our friend list. I just didn't think much about removing said friend either. At most I might just change the settings so I don't see the postings of the person.
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I don't add people I don't know and like. And unless I learn they secretly sucked all along, I don't delete anyone.
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