Just Got Blocked on Facebook

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Guitarist

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I've never been blocked before.

Literally making me feel sick.

This used to be one of my best friends.

I would tell someone I know but what's the point?

No point posting it here either.

I'm just so ******* bored.
 

You will not see the person's posts that blocked you. You also will not be able to chat with them or send them a message.
 
Tried to go to their page, got a message saying it wasn't working or had been removed. A friend of mine tried it and had no problem getting to it. So I assumed the fact that it didn't exist for me meant I've been blocked. It didn't give me a message saying "You are not authorized to view this page because you have been blocked."
 
Sometimes it's just a matter of who blocks who first. Too bad you didn't do it first as it would make you feel a whole lot better about this.

Guitarist, something must have led up to this. Care to share?

This is what I have against this type of Facebook Friendship, if in person in actual words we can sometimes work it out. It happened to me too and I no longer use Facebook.
 
Falcon said:
This is why I quit facebook a couple of days after I joined.

Sounded like a bunch of 3rd graders razzing eachother on the playground.
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You chose the wrong friends.

I've been on it happily for 8 years and I've had two people unfriend me. They didn't like my liberal posts. No loss.
 
Ok, so I don't use FB, therefore my words of wisdom may not be that helpful. It seems like a medium that constantly causes conflict. Mostly with the youth of today. It kinda engenders adolescent behaviour in adults who would never behave like that in real life. But I wonder if users should not pull back from using it if they find that things like this are starting to upset them? It seems to be all about control and the person who has blocked you has probably done it to hurt you - if it has been done intentionally. To regain control you kinda need to pull back from the whole thing. Or at least restrict use of it to family and friends with whom you have actual and regular contact.

There, you can rip that apart. :)

As for being bored? That is quite a different problem. :) The suggestions for that one are endless.
 
ossian said:
Ok, so I don't use FB, therefore my words of wisdom may not be that helpful. It seems like a medium that constantly causes conflict. Mostly with the youth of today. It kinda engenders adolescent behaviour in adults who would never behave like that in real life. But I wonder if users should not pull back from using it if they find that things like this are starting to upset them? It seems to be all about control and the person who has blocked you has probably done it to hurt you - if it has been done intentionally. To regain control you kinda need to pull back from the whole thing. Or at least restrict use of it to family and friends with whom you have actual and regular contact.

There, you can rip that apart. :)

As for being bored? That is quite a different problem. :) The suggestions for that one are endless.
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Some of my young relatives tell me that young people are leaving FB and going somewhere else but not telling us where. I don't bother to tell them that I don't care that they are leaving and won't be looking for them. Some of the biggest users seem to be middle aged or seniors. My friends are 17-84 but the ones I talk to the most aside from family, is boomer friends.
 
Thanks, ossian, this was a friend with whom I had regular real-life contact. All of my FB friends are real-life friends, I don't have many, because I only "friend" people who are real-life friends.

It's ironic because I joined FB for one reason only -- to see pics posted by one friend who posted pics only to FB because they idn't know how to e-mail them (and truly did not have time to do so -- FB is actually faster for that).

This person was one of my best friends until last fall.

Have to admit I did unfriend them when they got a little crazy back then, but then we sort of kept in touch in the real world and I hoped that -- as someone posted here -- we could talk and iron things out. Not so -- I sent an e-mail to a mutual friend; this friend responded (and the fact they had access to the e-mail is bad enough); I didn't want to respond on the friend's e-mail so I responded on FB as it's supposedly more private, and that's what got me blocked. But what the heck -- at least I know they got the message!

Did you know you can't post f****** on this board? It is automatically bleeped to ********.

How's that for treating us all like adults over 21?

LOL.
 
It is sad but in time you will feel more relaxed about what has happened. Make a new and better friend to compensate. :)

Ah but the board was not to know if it was a sweary f'ing or a naughty f'ing. :D
 
Oh, trust me, after this I'm not gonna try making any more new ******* friends! Once bitten twice shy and all that. I'm worth more than that.

LOL
 
Guitarist said:
I've never been blocked before.

Literally making me feel sick.

This used to be one of my best friends.

I would tell someone I know but what's the point?

No point posting it here either.

I'm just so ******* bored.
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Don't give up on us, I enjoy your posts, I've been on FB since the early days, I have a hate/love relationship with it. I'm down to 13 friends, mostly immediate family + 1 former co-worker. I hardly ever post anything. I just like to watch 2 of my 3 children gather friends. The boy has over 400 the girl has just under 400. It must be a race. My son is in his late 40's single, makes good money but bad relationship choices. Every week he gets flagged with making more friends with women around his age. Got to admit he's out there. The girl's friends are mostly crafty, have school-age children or distant relatives, some of whom I didn't know existed.

I unfriended 2 of mine recently because of their rants about politics or too many grandchildren's photos. Don't hate them but they were filling up my wall with unread, unappreciated posts. I mostly try to keep track of my 3 children's activities. I only post inane, personal & sometimes embarrassing things here. I was unfriended a few years back when I had my name removed from my former religion's membership roles. They still found me when I moved. The mafia could use their resources to find all the 'witness protection' recipients around the US.
 
Thanks, Son, that brought tears to my eyes (in a good way -- thanks).

I had to stop following my own cousin (we've never met) on the news feed because she was posting so much stuff that I could not relate to. Her mother (my cousin) asked me to friend her but she has not posted one personal message to me and the newsfeed items just mean nothing to me.

I don't get all the "liking" of pics and posts when real-life FB friends don't like each other enough to let each other know.
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I only joined FB to keep an eye on my grandson's who were young when they joined. Now one is in college and the other is graduating high school,so I seldom go on anymore.
 
Do you mean you were blocked from using FACEBOOK!!??
No one can do that unless they post something with vulgarity, nudity, or excess profanity, or some kind of threats. I would write to FB and ask them WHY you got blocked.
Now, an individual (that has contacted you or you contacted them) can block you which means you can have no more contact with them... but that doesn't mean they can prevent you from getting onto FB. Plus, if you get too many posts, just go to their page, click on to no more notifications... or right on YOUR page click that little downward arrow beside their posts and click onto Stop All Notifications. (may not be exact words) ...
ANYWAY PLEASE do not take this 'sitting down'...if you did nothing wrong...you cannot be blocked from using FB...
I love Facebook... its wonderful to be able to be in contact with people from around the world. Good luck to you, Guitarist... you are a great person and deserve to have this straightened out!! Msg me if you want any more info...I'll try my best to help.
 
Ruthanne said:
She was blocked by one person only Bettyann.
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Thank you, Ruthanne...and Guitarist, I apologize to you for my misunderstanding... I thought you meant you were blocked from getting on Facebook...instead of just that one person. I meant well...but I goofed!! I'm sorry. :(
 
Bettyann said:
Thank you, Ruthanne...and Guitarist, I apologize to you for my misunderstanding... I thought you meant you were blocked from getting on Facebook...instead of just that one person. I meant well...but I goofed!! I'm sorry. :(
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No need to apologize -- I appreciated your post. :) Thanks -- it's a very kind post!
 
Ameriscot said:
Some of my young relatives tell me that young people are leaving FB and going somewhere else but not telling us where. I don't bother to tell them that I don't care that they are leaving and won't be looking for them. Some of the biggest users seem to be middle aged or seniors. My friends are 17-84 but the ones I talk to the most aside from family, is boomer friends.
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The kids are now on Instagram or SnapChat. I am on Instagram-the kids have all "Followed" me but I have never "Followed" anyone. I don`t even know how it works. Every so often I`ll get an email saying there are new posts from "SexyBeautiful" (my youngest daughter or Xbombergames" (one of my grandsons) or one of my A___ Adams05 grandsons and then I will open it and see pics from them all but that`s about all I know. Oh,I did figure out how to "Like" their photos but that`s about it. But that`s their place so I just don`t go there often.
 
I joined facebook mainly to see what my grandchildren post. I received a lot of requests from family and close friends so I stop in at least once a day. My son-in-law has gotten banned a few times over Political opinions he expresses. He just won't stop. I don't understand why he does it. I totally agree with his opinions but his friends don't. I told him he should just stop and post other issues except Political posts. I wish he would listen.
 
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