Why not just quit Facebook?
I decided to just cut it out and hope that I see those people again in real life. If not, then the road goes elsewhere. Feels a little more human.
Yeah, I occasionally go through a lot of post and click "don't see any more stuff from MYCATS" or whatever. But it's gotten to the point where you just can't stop it that way either. I think "like" now means "see more crap from here" otherwise how would so many people be viewing so much junk.
I'm in a similar boat. That's just how a lot of people I know communicate. Sure they have other ways to communicate, but they don't want to.
You can ask said email/sms/whatever. If the communication matters, you should have them anyway. If not, then those persons are not that important.
> There's a large number of people on Facebook that I interact with that I don't have email / sms / whatever for.
There you go ! Here is one of the other reasons that I stated before. Not the "those people I can only reach through facebook" bullshit.
Oh, I'd agree they're "not that important" but that doesn't mean "...and therefore I should cut them out of my life."
> Not the "those people I can only reach through facebook" bullshit.
It's not "bullshit" just because you disagree.
For everything else, there's email, sms, and a half dozen other social networks.
Are you going to follow everyone who's harming themselves in any way (alcohol, drugs, food, [insert any other vice]...) to chide about their behaviors?
Lots of people have problems with Facebook, and I was suggesting a solution to their problems which many people think is untenable, but works well for me. If you don't have problems with Facebook, my comments weren't directed at you.
There's some irony in jumping into someone else's conversation to tell them to mind their own business and stop chiding people for their behavior.