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    When to delete inactive friends...

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    • Posts: 4,317 Member
      15 minutes. If they aren’t constantly coddling my fragile psyche…I cut them loose.

      :laugh:
    • Posts: 2,038 Member
      3 DAYS
    • Posts: 954 Member
      3 months for me , 7 days would be a lurker on my FL - but I have friends who I have met off the computer I would never delete , one has returned after 3 months gone ... so yeah I give everyone a chance , but then my FL is not terribly full, its not like i have a waiting list.....

      I also give nudges after a week , then check in abt every 4-5 days, so yeah , if you fall off the wagon , I'm right behind you hitting you in the back of the knees to knock you back in here .. (its a mom thing)
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    • Posts: 785 Member
      If they're not supportive, never comment or if they're not eye candy.
    • Posts: 4,317 Member
      When they refuse to show me their butt.

      Message received! Taking picture of my butt right now.
    • Posts: 1,428 Member
      If someone's been gone for months, sure. /shrug

      7 days seems a bit extreme, but it's your FL

      My thoughts exactly. Crap is bound to happen in the span of 7 days. I say 3 months is my average, that way I give people the benefit of the doubt.
    • Posts: 797 Member
      7 days if we never actually interacted at all, 14 days if there was some superficial interaction (likes, a comment or two). If I talked to them a lot before they disappeared then pretty much indefinitely.

      something like this.
    • Posts: 7,237 Member
      It's your FL, so delete them whenever you want.
    • Posts: 2,942 Member
      30 days, unless we are friends in real life.
    • Posts: 112 Member
      A month, if I even ever bother looking through my FL to check. I don't care, honestly. Some people get really riled up about this sort of thing and I'm not sure why.

      ^^^ This! IF I even bother to check my list and worry about it. I have a short, sweet friend list. Some of them have gone away for quite some time and then they reappear and I welcome them back. Things happen to people sometimes. You never know what they may be going through for them to "disappear" for a while. Could be something really serious, so I don't sweat it. If they come back on, great! I'll be there to say hello and glad to see that they are back.
    • Posts: 531 Member
      I would prefer that my FL is full of people who are as committed as I am, and I log in every day. I don't like the idea of seeing people coming and going, or quitting because it's too hard, generally flaking out, or posting updates like 'oops, I fell off the wagon for 2 weeks, but I'm back, congratulate me!'. So I'm pretty brutal with deleting.
    • Posts: 11,788 Member
      I say 7 days of inactivity unless they are on vacation or something. What do you think? ... unless you are a "dead friend" hoarder - then I don't care what you think.


      If you don't care what we think, why did you ask?
    • Posts: 3,928 Member
      Why delete them at all? If they are inactive they are not clogging up your news feeds or anything?


      this. I don't have a lot of friends on here, but I don't care if they've disappeared for a while. I've disappeared for a while here & there too.

      I don't really look through my friends list that often. If they're posting & logging, great! If not, well, it doesn't affect me at all so I don't feel the need to delete them.
    • Posts: 2,942 Member
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      this. I don't have a lot of friends on here, but I don't care if they've disappeared for a while. I've disappeared for a while here & there too.

      I don't really look through my friends list that often. If they're posting & logging, great! If not, well, it doesn't affect me at all so I don't feel the need to delete them.

      I regularly look at the friends tab on the mobile app. It lists every username with an icon and how many lbs they've lost. I find it very motivating to see how everyone is doing.
    • Posts: 954 Member
      my husband has been inactive on mfp for 8 months can i delete him???
    • Posts: 939
      Daily.
    • Posts: 39 Member
      Happily got my first friend request today, but then I read this thread - and yikes. Hope I don't find myself friendless after this weekend since I'm making a trip to visit my family and probably won't be online for a couple days. :frown:
    • Posts: 1,002 Member
      I delete people just because...


      It makes me feel powerful.
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