Old Un-Friends

I have, in the past, un-friended people on Facebook. I have done so without giving it much thought, like it was no big deal. Usually it has been because the person just posts too much stuff, and it gets crazy. Then I figured out how to "unsubscribe" from someone, which means you can keep them as a friend and just not get their news stream, so I do that now when the amount of input becomes overwhelming.

My son has advised me that the act of un-friending is perceived as "insulting and hurtful." I scoffed, saying it was not seen as a slight, at least not for my generation. But now I have discovered that an old friend of mine has recently un-friended me, and I am indeed insulted and hurt.

To anyone I have un-friended in the past, I'm sorry. And to that one friend who recently un-friended me, just in case she reads this blog from time to time and this might be one of the times: What did I do?