Facebook: A place of refuge-slash-a place of torture

If you’re anything like the rest of the twenty-something generation, you’ll be networking and connecting with the majority of your friends on Facebook. Most of us, and I’m not proud of it, spend a few hours per day on Facebook, whether it be checking messages that get pushed to our smartphones anyway or just simply scrolling through pictures of humorous anecdotes.

This has been quite the year of me not putting up with people’s shit and putting them in their place. Unfortunately, these same people remain friends on Facebook and annoy the shit out of me with their mere existence at Starbucks with their incorrectly spelled names.

I’m not here to tell you how to run your Facebook but I can attempt to make it a little bit of a better experience.

Click the Following button to unfollow!

Hashtags weren’t the only feature Facebook copied from Twitter! You can still remain friends with people but you don’t need to see all their posts in your timeline.

Just to clarify, the other party won’t know you’ve unfollowed them (unless you go and tell them or show them). Unfollowing just means you have to go out of your way to see their news. It’s totally reversible and, again, a person won’t know that you’ve unfollowed them and subsequently refollowed them.

You don’t owe anybody your Facebook friendship.

It’s your Facebook so don’t feel obliged to keep Facebook friends with people you despise to see on your timeline, even if you have unfollowed them.

Have a great Christmas eve!