I know how hard it is to start weeding out friends.

But sometimes ya just have to get a handle on lists !

gonna' do the same myself...been putting it off for a long time, but there are people on my list i don't know and that never talk to me.

hope i don't hurt any feelings.

it seems like people randomly pick me as a friend.

If I see some one I don't know some times I will friend them thinking it is some one new who is in need. But often times it's a person that never talks and just takes up a space.

I feel I'm already friends with people even if they aren't on my list as long as I know who you are and see your posts on the forum. So even if you aren't on my list

just know that doesn't make us not friends.

I hate having more then one full page LOL. I think as you become a veteran on DS. You start making the friendship before they make your list saves time and the pain of cutting them out later. But you live you learn.

Did that a long time ago. It was hard to do. One member came back and asked why we weren't friends anymore. I felt bad. But sometimes you got to do what you got to do

Im so bad I still have the old accounts of people who have created new ones.

how long do you have to be on DS to be seasoned LOL?

Any how I guess I'm learning.

i just dumped 7 people, and i feel awful.

funny thing is, they'll probably never know.

Oh man..I don't know if I can do this!!

Then again, I don't think I've made that much of an impact in their life since they never talk to me.

Ok, I can do this too!

DK, you deleted me. No harm no foul

I just looked at mine. Funny thing is I remember all of them but like 2. Now it's got me thinking about all those people who were here and then vanished. I just can't do it! I know I need to...maybe someday.

I even have one on there that I know will never come back, just can't seem to let her go. : (

Rachyl

I wouldn't have deleted you. I don't know how that happened I must have mistaken you for some one else. I wouldn't delete some one still on the board.

I was trying to get rid of random strangers!

But I did notice I had more friends that I did actually know than friends I didn't. I think some of my non friends took them selves off the list cause I know I had more than that.

Only been on DS for just over a year now. But was a post many many many moons back that you had to go to the person account and remove them there or the amazing unstably of DS would take random people off your friend list. No idea if true but this is DS land.

I'm glad I made the cut. I've done this 3 times since I came to DS - and each time it was more than 100 people, and still leaving 150 or more. Just too many.

My problem is not that I am so enormously popular, but that I am in so many groups, esp. privates that I am founder of. I feel obligated to add someone if they friend me and they are in my group. So the dilemma of what to do if they never return.

I always put a warning on my journal, and I only delete people if I don't have a clue who they are, and no groups in common. Still, as someone said to me - it's putting that little friend box right by the hug box. Send someone a hug, and they check "be a friend" if they return the hug. Of course, I don't get mail outs, so if someone did did a journal warning for me, I would never know.

I like the idea of just saying - when we get to know each other better. Several have done that with me and I felt no offense. And yes, I have deleted people by accident that were my closest friends. Never use the friends list, always go to the profile.

By the way, even though my RA is probably worse than my bipolar, I consider this my main group. Just in case anyone thinks I am jumping ship. This is where most of my friends come from. I had lots in RA, but they all left, and not really feeling like going back and reposting the same medical info for people I don't know. This group is better - well because it has different moods. LOL

I still have three pages of people that I will NOT delete.