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Stupid fb drama ?

WWND?

I've had this childhood friend since I was 3 years old. We grew up across the street from each other. I was in her wedding & a couple years later she moved to NC.

At that point, we were living very different lives. I was enjoying my early 20's & she was married, buying a house & starting a family. We started to drift apart. There was a point when I went through a rough time & she couldn't be bothered. We stopped talking after that. It's probably been about 8 years since I talked with her.

Fast forward to now, she's never been on fb, but I guess she finally decided to sign up & requested me as a friend. I don't know if I want to accept her. I'm still rather hurt that she cut me out of her life. There really wasn't a reason. We didn't have a fight or anything. And to be fair, I don't know what's been going on in her life either for the past 8 years or so.

I realize it's just a fb friend request, but would you accept her? 

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Re: Stupid fb drama ?

  • If it were me, I would accept her request and see if there is a friendship to patch up.  Whats the worst that can happen, you are still annoyed/hurt by what happened and you delete her?
  • I have a friend like this, but we drifted after we were friends on facebook. So I hid her so I didn't have to see all her activity.

     If you feel like it is the right thing to do to add her, just add and hide if it will hurt to see her statuses.

    Or just reject.

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  • I ignore friend requests sometimes.  I remove people sometimes.  Facebook can be personal (baby pictures, relationship statuses, etc) and it's something I do on my off time, and I refuse to allow it to be a negative thing in my life in any way.  I personally wouldn't have a problem ignoring the request, but Aly made a good suggestion to accept her if you don't want to hurt her feelings, then hide her.  Don't block her though, because then you both totally disappear from each other and that is just weird and really obvious. 
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  • I would accept her, she is probably just curious to see what you're up to and you can do the same and check our her profile. You know how FB is, people request each other but then never even talk on there, it's just so they can see each other's info.

    I'm a curious person, so I would probably also send her a message like "wow, haven't heard from you in years. How are things?" That sends the message that SHE's the one who stopped talking to you and she should feel bad.. .haha.

    I'm FB friends with a few former good friends and I hide most of their updates and activity. They're all people who stopped talking to me for no apparent reason even when I tried to keep the friendship going.

  • I would accept it because I'm nosy and would want to know what she's up to.  :)  Like others said you can always hide her if it's too hurtful to you to see her updates.
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  • I dont think she would post anything hurtful. I think I'm more concerned about the awkwardness. Ok, this is silly.. I'll just accept her. Thanks.
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  • I had a similar friend situation.  Ffwd 10+ years and chickadee gets her HUSBAND to ask me to me Facebook friends and he said, "J wants to see what you've been up to!  Please add me so she can snoop your page."  Um, no.  If she really gave a damn she could pick up the phone or send an email.  I haven't changed either in 10+ years.  I declined her H's request and blocked him.
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  • I'd add her, but I'm not particularly good at holding grudges.  My friendship with my roommate in college ended with her locking me out of the house we were sharing and me suing her.  We were still both able to move on from that with time and distance and become FB "friends".  It makes me happy to see that she outgrew dating a drug dealer with personal hygiene issues and met and married and nice guy and has two adorable daughters.
  • meh. I don't know what I would do. I'm not a fan of being friends on FB just for the sake of being friends on FB. You're not friends IRL anymore, she didn't care what you were up to until she got on FB..so why now?

    i'm a scrooge

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    meh. I don't know what I would do. I'm not a fan of being friends on FB just for the sake of being friends on FB. You're not friends IRL anymore, she didn't care what you were up to until she got on FB..so why now?

    i'm a scrooge

    On one hand, that's exactly how I feel.
    Although, once in a great while she'll email a mutual friend. Mutual friend has said that she's asked about me before but never went so far as to ask for any contact info for me. So I guess she doesn't care that much.
    I'm conflicted.
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  • If you want to see if you can salvage the relationship, accept her. Otherwise, I would block her and she will never be able to tell that you are even on FB unless a mutual friend says that you are.
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  • I have a friend like that but we drifted apart right before we graduate HS, 5 years later we start chatting in Facebook and now our friendship is on again, is not the same as before but its in a good position where we email each other every so often to update on what is going on in your life. Granted the first email after accepting each other was kind of awkward but we apologize and I am grateful that facebook help us get back in touch.
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